Spinal cord termination in adult Africans: Relationship with intercristal line and the transumbilical plane

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 563-565

  Gatonga, P ^a   Ogeng'o, J A ^a   Awori, K O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Intercristal line; Termination; Transumbilical plane

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONUS MEDULLARIS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL CORD; UMBILICUS;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADAVER; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; SPINAL CORD; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953307290     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: 10982353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.20963     Document Type: Article

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