Three-dimensional ontogenetic shape changes in the human cranium during the fetal period

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 212, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 627-635

  Morimoto, Naoki ^a,c   Ogihara, Naomichi ^a   Katayama, Kazumichi ^a   Shiota, Kohei ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cranial base angle; Development; Fetus; Otogeny; Three dimensional morphometrics

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPANESE; MORPHOMETRICS; OCCIPITAL BONE; ONTOGENY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL BASE; SKULL DEVELOPMENT; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BONE DEVELOPMENT; CEPHALOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FACIAL BONES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

CRANIA;

EID: 42649136573     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2008.00884.x     Document Type: Article

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