Sternalis muscle: A mystery still

Folia Morphologica

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 147-149

  Loukas, Marios ^a,b   Bowers, Maggi ^a   Hullett, Joel ^a  

^a American University of the Caribbean   (Netherlands Antilles)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Sternalis muscle

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAMMOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; STERNAL MUSCLE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THORAX;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; STERNUM;

EID: 2942682773     PISSN: 00155659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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