Microanatomical and immunohistochemical study of the human lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve of forearm at the antecubital fossa and its clinical implications

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 693-701

  Chakravarthy Marx, S ^a   Kumar, Pramod ^a   Dhalapathy, S ^b   Prasad, Keerthana ^c   Marx, C Anitha ^d  

^a KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c MANIPAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d MANIPAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Adipose tissue; Fascicle; Lateral cutaneous nerve of forearm; Morphometry; Sympathetic fiber

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREARM; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL ANTEBRACHIAL CUTANEOUS NERVE; LIPID STORAGE; MALE; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE GRAFT; NEUROANATOMY; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN NERVE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FOREARM; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOCUTANEOUS NERVE; NERVE FIBERS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SKIN; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 77956565839     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: 10982353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.20985     Document Type: Article

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