Subcutaneous fascial bands-a qualitative and morphometric analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Li, Weihui ^a   Ahn, Andrew C ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARM; ARTICLE; DERMIS; EPIMYSIUM; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LOWER LEG; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKIN; SUBCUTANEOUS FASCIAL BAND; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; THICKNESS; THIGH; ECHOGRAPHY; FASCIA; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

COLLAGEN;

ADULT; COLLAGEN; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

EID: 80052527819     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023987     Document Type: Article

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