title: [Light microscopic studies of the cartilage in funnel chest. A new view of the pathogenesis].
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.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgische Klinik mit Poliklinik der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rupprecht
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Freiberger
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002356:Cartilage / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology; D002452:Cell Count; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005660:Funnel Chest / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012272:Ribs / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: Lichtmikroskopische Untersuchungen am Trichterbrustknorpel. Neuer Aspekt zur Pathogenese.