Clinical importance of the muscular arch of the axilla (axillopectoral muscle, langer's axillary arch)

Acta Chirurgica Belgica

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 326-328

  Ucerler H ^a   Aktan Ikiz, Z A ^a,b   Pinan, Y ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Axillary Muscular arch; Thoracic outlet syndrome

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AXILLA; AXILLOPECTORAL MUSCLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CADAVER; CASE REPORT; ESTHETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERCOSTAL NERVE; LATISSIMUS DORSI MUSCLE; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MUSCLE; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RECURRENT SHOULDER DISLOCATION; TENDON; THORAX OUTLET SYNDROME;

EID: 21344432582     PISSN: 00015458     EISSN: 25770160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00015458.2005.11679729     Document Type: Article

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