Sternalis muscle revisted in South Indian male cadaver: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Sternalis/rectus sternalis is a rare muscle found in the chest wall. Only 3-5% of the cases are found world wide. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we report the case of Sternalis in the 60-year-old South Indian male cadaver. This report discusses the origin, orientation, relations of this muscl...

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Autores principales: Bhat, Kumar MR, Potu, Bhagath Kumar, Gowda, Siddaraju
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829786
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6318
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Potu, Bhagath Kumar
Gowda, Siddaraju
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description INTRODUCTION: Sternalis/rectus sternalis is a rare muscle found in the chest wall. Only 3-5% of the cases are found world wide. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we report the case of Sternalis in the 60-year-old South Indian male cadaver. This report discusses the origin, orientation, relations of this muscle. CONCLUSION: Importance of the knowledge of the presence of these rare muscles in clinical diagnosis and therapeutic implications is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-27402222009-10-14 Sternalis muscle revisted in South Indian male cadaver: a case report Bhat, Kumar MR Potu, Bhagath Kumar Gowda, Siddaraju Cases J Case report INTRODUCTION: Sternalis/rectus sternalis is a rare muscle found in the chest wall. Only 3-5% of the cases are found world wide. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we report the case of Sternalis in the 60-year-old South Indian male cadaver. This report discusses the origin, orientation, relations of this muscle. CONCLUSION: Importance of the knowledge of the presence of these rare muscles in clinical diagnosis and therapeutic implications is discussed. Cases Network Ltd 2009-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC2740222/ /pubmed/19829786 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6318 Text en © 2009 Bhat et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bhat, Kumar MR
Potu, Bhagath Kumar
Gowda, Siddaraju
Sternalis muscle revisted in South Indian male cadaver: a case report
title Sternalis muscle revisted in South Indian male cadaver: a case report
title_full Sternalis muscle revisted in South Indian male cadaver: a case report
title_fullStr Sternalis muscle revisted in South Indian male cadaver: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Sternalis muscle revisted in South Indian male cadaver: a case report
title_short Sternalis muscle revisted in South Indian male cadaver: a case report
title_sort sternalis muscle revisted in south indian male cadaver: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829786
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6318
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