Ultrastructural study of the filum terminale and its elastic fibers

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 978-983

  Fontes, Ricardo B V ^a,b   Saad, Felippe ^a   Soares, Matheus S ^a   De Oliveira, Flavia ^a   Pinto, Fernando C G ^a   Liberti, Edson A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anatomy and histology; Elastic tissue; Filum terminale; Tethered cord syndrome

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CAUDA EQUINA; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; ELASTIC FIBER; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TERMINAL FILUM; TETHERED CORD SYNDROME;

ADULT; CAUDA EQUINA; ELASTIC TISSUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS;

EID: 33646825191     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000210224.54816.40     Document Type: Article

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