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Retrograde Perfusion and Filling of Mouse Coronary Vasculature as Preparation for Micro Computed Tomography Imaging
Published on: February 10, 2012
[Constitutional features of cardiovascular shadow characteristics]
1Department of Normal Anatomy, Rostov State Medical University, Rostov-on-the Don.
Abstract:
The front straight projection roentgenograms of the chest of 1210 healthy persons of age 17-22 and 212 roentgenograms of the chest in left side projection were studied. Their somatic type was defined beforehand on the different variation levels. It was determined, that the position and size of the cardiovascular shadow depend on the somatic type on the gabarital, componental and proportional variation levels. The cardial position and roentgeno-cardiometrical indexes' values of the both sex persons of different somatic types are described.
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