Fetal development and variations in the cartilages surrounding the human external acoustic meatus

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 128-136

  Ikari, Yasutoyo ^a   Katori, Yukio ^b   Ohtsuka, Aiji ^c   Rodríguez Vázquez, Jose Francisco ^d   Abe, Hiroshi ^e   Kawase, Tetsuaki ^f   Murakami, Gen ^g   Abe, Shin ichi ^a  

^a TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b SENDAI CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g Iwamizawa Kojin kai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cartilage; External acoustic meatus; Human fetuses; Temporal bone; Tragus; Tympanic ring

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; CERUMINOUS GLAND; CORTI ORGAN; EAR CARTILAGE; EXOCRINE GLAND; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; EXTERNAL EAR; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PHARYNGEAL ARCH CARTILAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKINFOLD; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TRAGUS;

EAR CANAL; EAR CARTILAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

TRAGUS;

EID: 84876734803     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: 16180402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aanat.2012.07.009     Document Type: Article

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