Observation of the relationship between the shape of skeletal muscles and their nerve distribution patterns: A transparent and microanatomic study

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 165-176

  Peker, Tuncay ^a   Gülekon, Nadir ^b   Turgut, Basri Hasan ^b   Anil, Afitap ^b   Karaköse, Mustafa ^b   Mungan, Tamer ^b   Danişman, Nuri ^b  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; ARM; FETUS; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; MASSETER MUSCLE; MEDIAN NERVE; MICRODISSECTION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

COLORING AGENT;

ARM; COLORING AGENTS; FETUS; HUMANS; MASSETER MUSCLE; MEDIAN NERVE; MICRODISSECTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 33644859353     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000186539.80555.27     Document Type: Article

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