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. 1989;22(5):314-8.

[Light microscopic studies of the cartilage in funnel chest. A new view of the pathogenesis]

[Article in German]
H Rupprecht  1 , N Freiberger
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  • PMID: 2588750

[Light microscopic studies of the cartilage in funnel chest. A new view of the pathogenesis]

[Article in German]
H Rupprecht et al. Z Exp Chir Transplant Kunstliche Organe. 1989.

Abstract

In patients with a funnel chest, light-microscopic studies of their rib cartilage showed vessels in all slices of the cartilage. In all analysed stages of life there is a constant number of vessels per unit area; even in not deformed parts of the cartilage. Furthermore, the number of the chondrocytes strongly increases within the single chondrons with rising age in an extraordinary way.

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