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Morphometric aspects of the facial and skeletal muscles in fetuses

Hiroshi Moriyama1, Kaori Amano2, Masahiro Itoh3

  • 1Department of Anatomy, Showa University School of Medicine, 5-8, Hatanodai 1, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8555, Japan.

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
|April 30, 2015
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Keywords:
Biceps brachii muscleBuccinator muscleFetusMasseter muscleMorphometryMuscle fiber

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