The vertebral venous plexuses: The internal veins are muscular and external veins have valves

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 609-618

  Stringer, Mark D ^a   Restieaux, Matthew ^a   Fisher, Amanda L ^b   Crosado, Brynley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

venous valves; vertebral metastases; vertebral veins

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL VERTEBRAL VENOUS PLEXUS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNAL VERTEBRAL VENOUS PLEXUS; MALE; MICRODISSECTION; MITRAL VALVE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS VENOSUS; SMOOTH MUSCLE; VEIN; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VERTEBRAL VEIN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADAVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SPINE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; VEINS; VENOUS VALVES;

EID: 84861796321     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: 10982353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.21281     Document Type: Article

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