Innervation of the apical turn of the human cochlea: A light microscopic and transmission electron microscopic investigation

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 270-275

  Pamulova, Lucia ^a   Linder, Birgitta ^a   Rask Andersen, Helge ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cochlea; Human; Innervation; Spiral ganglion; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; EFFERENT NERVE; EMBEDDING; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HAIR CELL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPLANTATION; INNERVATION; MENINGIOMA; MYELINATED NERVE; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SPIRAL GANGLION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TISSUE SECTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADULT; COCHLEA; HAIR CELLS; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NERVE FIBERS; SPIRAL GANGLION;

EID: 33645090172     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mao.0000187239.56583.d2     Document Type: Article

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