Human fetal anatomy of the coccygeal attachments of the levator ani muscle

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 566-574

  Niikura, Hitoshi ^a   Jin, Zhe Wu ^b   Cho, Baik Hwan ^b   Murakami, Gen ^c   Yaegashi, Nobuo ^a   Lee, Jong Kyun ^d   Lee, Nae Ho ^b   Li, Chun Ai ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Chonbuk National University Medical School   (South Korea)

^c Iwamizawa Kojin kai Hospital   (Japan)

^d Song Do Colorectal Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Coccygeus; Human fetus; Levator ani; Sacrococcygeus muscle

Indexed keywords

ANOCOCCYGEUS MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS (ANATOMY); FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; ISCHIALGIA; ISCHIUM; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; PELVIS; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBIC BONE; PUDENDAL NERVE; SPLANCHNIC NERVE;

ANAL CANAL; COCCYX; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PELVIC FLOOR; SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION;

EID: 77953319223     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: 10982353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.20983     Document Type: Article

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