Possible secular trend in the incidence of an anatomical variant: median artery of the forearm.

doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330960402

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Possible secular trend in the incidence of an anatomical variant: median artery of the forearm.

American journal of physical anthropology - 1 Apr 1995

Henneberg M, George B J

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Occurrence of a secular trend in the presence of a common anatomical variant-median artery of the forearm is studied. Data from the literature indicated the incidence of the median artery to be between 4.4 and 8.3% in adult cadavers studied before 1960 while our recent study found a frequency of...

Topics

Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Anthropology, Physical
Arteries
Cadaver
Chi-Square Distribution
Cross-Sectional Studies
Embryonic and Fetal Development
Forearm
Genetic Variation
Humans
Incidence
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Middle Aged
Time Factors

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