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. 1997 Oct;191(Pt 3):475. doi: 10.1046/j.1469-7580.1997.19130475.x

The glenoid notch and the shape of the glenoid cavity of the scapula

A E W MILES 1
PMCID: PMC1467708  PMID: 9419008

Abstract

Studying the shoulder joint in a palaeo-osteological context in recent years, I have been struck, like Prescher & Klümpen (1997), by the lack of information about the glenoid notch provided by the standard anatomical texts; indeed equally unexplained is the pear-shape of the glenoid cavity itself.

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