Application of micro-computed tomographic scanning to characterize patterns of murine cranial suture fusion

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1847-1854

  Gosain, Arun K ^a,b   Cortes, Wilberto ^a   Chim, Harvey ^a   Beck, Daniel ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRANIAL SUTURE; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANIMALS; CRANIAL SUTURES; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; MALE; MICE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79955653916     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31820e88aa     Document Type: Article

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