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Anatomical landmarks of the rhomboid fossa (floor of the 4th ventricle), its length and its width

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    Length and width values of the rhomboid fossa.

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    Number and development of the transverse and oblique striae in the bottom area of the fourth ventricle.

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    The course of the facial nerve inside the pons and the medulla oblongata.

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    Some fiber tracts and nuclei in the tegmentum pontis and the medulla oblongata.

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    A very thick arcuato-cerebellar tract.

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    The results of our investigations are compared with descriptions of other researchers.

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  1. Department of Anatomy, University of Würzburg, Federal Republic of Germany

    J. Lang Jr., N. Ohmachi & J. Lang Sen

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Dedicated to our dear friend, Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Koos, Direktor der Neurochirurgischen Universitätsklinik Wien, on occasion of his 60th birthday.

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Lang, J., Ohmachi, N. & Sen, J.L. Anatomical landmarks of the rhomboid fossa (floor of the 4th ventricle), its length and its width. Acta neurochir 113, 84–90 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01402120

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