Oral microvascular network geometry abnormalities in infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis

Fractals

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 311-318

  Parrini, Stefano ^a   Bianciardi, Giorgio ^a   Latini, Giuseppe ^b   Di Maggio, Giovanni ^c   De Felice, Claudio ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Section of Pediatric Surgery

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blood Vessels; Clinical Marker; Complexity; Extracellular Matrix; Fractals; Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FRACTALS; GENES;

CLINICAL MARKER; COMPLEXITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; INFANTILE HYPERTROPHIC PYLORIC STENOSIS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 4944252746     PISSN: 0218348X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218348X04002574     Document Type: Article

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