The Sequence of Lanugo Pattern Development on the Trunk Wall in Human Fetuses

September 2017 in “ Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine ”

Zygmunt Domagała, Paweł Dąbrowski, W Kurlej, Michal Porwolik, Sławomir Woźniak, Ryszard Kacała, Bohdan Gworys

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Studysummary This study found that lanugo hair appears earlier on the posterior wall of the trunk than on the anterior wall in human fetuses, with a nearly two-week difference in development time.

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