Development of the descending colon during the human foetal period

Folia Morphologica

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 173-178

  Gworys, Bohdan ^a   Domagała, Zygmunt ^a   Markocka Maczka, Krystyna ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Descending colon variations; Foetal stage; Morphology

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL GLAND; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DESCENDING COLON; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENDER; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY; LARGE INTESTINE; MALE; MESENTERY; PERITONEUM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TISSUE GROWTH; TOPOGRAPHY;

COLON, DESCENDING; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MALE; ORGANOGENESIS; PERITONEUM; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2942635195     PISSN: 00155659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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