The triangle of the vertebral artery

Neurosurgery

Volumn 56, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Tubbs, R Shane ^a,c   Salter, E George ^b   Wellons III, John C ^a   Blount, Jeffrey P ^a   Oakes, W Jerry ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c Pediatric Neurosurgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Cervical; Cupula; Root of the neck; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR SCALENE MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LONGUS CERVICIS MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NECK MUSCLE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL NERVE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SYMPATHETIC TRUNK; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADAVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PHRENIC NERVE; SPINAL NERVES; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 16844368471     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000156797.07395.15     Document Type: Article

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