Human vagus nerve branching in the cervical region

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Hammer, Niels ^a   Glätzner, Juliane ^b   Feja, Christine ^a   Kühne, Christian ^b   Meixensberger, Jürgen ^b   Planitzer, Uwe ^a,b   Schleifenbaum, Stefan ^b   Tillmann, Bernhard N ^c   Winkler, Dirk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NERVE SHEATH; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROANATOMY; RADIOGRAPHY; VAGUS NERVE BRANCHING; VAGUS NERVE DIAMETER; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VERY ELDERLY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CYTOLOGY; DONOR; INNERVATION; NECK; VAGUS NERVE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NECK; TISSUE DONORS; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 84923067780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118006     Document Type: Article

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