Novel insights into the elastic and muscular components of the human trachea

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 689-697

  Kamel, Kirollos Salah ^a   Beckert, Lutz E ^b   Stringer, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Elastic fibers; Tracheal anatomy; Trachealis

Indexed keywords

ELASTIN;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS; CARTILAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELASTIC FIBER; ELASTIC TISSUE; FIBROELASTIC MEMBRANE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEMBRANE; MICRODISSECTION; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SWALLOWING; TISSUE SECTION; TRACHEA; TRACHEALIS MUSCLE; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE; TRACHEOBRONCHOMEGALY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRONCHI; ELASTIC TISSUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TRACHEA;

EID: 68549119063     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: 10982353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.20841     Document Type: Article

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