The vascular cast of the human uterus: From anatomy to physiology

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1034, Issue , 2004, Pages 19-26

  Cicinelli, Ettore ^a   Einer Jensen, Niels ^b   Galantino, Pietro ^a   Alfonso, Raffaello ^a   Nicoletti, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blood supply; Local transfer; Tubes; Utero ovarian anastomosis; Utero ovarian arcade; Uterus; Vagina

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUTEAL PHASE; OVARY ARTERY; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE; TISSUE PERFUSION; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR TISSUE;

EID: 14944368091     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1335.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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