"Occipital Bone" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Part of the back and base of the CRANIUM that encloses the FORAMEN MAGNUM.
| Descriptor ID |
D009777
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A02.835.232.781.572
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| Concept/Terms |
Occipital Bone- Occipital Bone
- Bone, Occipital
- Bones, Occipital
- Occipital Bones
Basilar Bone- Basilar Bone
- Basilar Bones
- Bone, Basilar
- Bones, Basilar
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Occipital Bone" by people in Profiles.
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Hale AT, Say I, Shah S, Dewan MC, Anderson RCE, Tomycz LD. Traumatic Occipitocervical Distraction Injuries in Children: A Systematic Review. Pediatr Neurosurg. 2019; 54(2):75-84.
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Papp Z, Marosfoi M, Szikora I, Banczerowski P. Treatment of C-2 metastatic tumors with intraoperative transoral or transpedicular vertebroplasty and occipitocervical posterior fixation. J Neurosurg Spine. 2014 Dec; 21(6):886-91.
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Tzortzidis F, Elahi F, Wright D, Natarajan SK, Sekhar LN. Patient outcome at long-term follow-up after aggressive microsurgical resection of cranial base chordomas. Neurosurgery. 2006 Aug; 59(2):230-7; discussion 230-7.
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Vender JR, Houle PJ, Harrison S, McDonnell DE. Occipital-cervical fusion using the Locksley intersegmental tie bar technique: long-term experience with 19 patients. Spine J. 2002 Mar-Apr; 2(2):134-41.
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Mooney MP, Losken HW, Siegel MI, Lalikos JF, Losken A, Burrows AM, Smith TD. Development of a strain of rabbits with congenital simple nonsyndromic coronal suture synostosis. Part II: Somatic and craniofacial growth patterns. Cleft Palate Craniofac J. 1994 Jan; 31(1):8-16.
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Mooney MP, Losken HW, Siegel MI, Lalikos JF, Losken A, Smith TD, Burrows AM. Development of a strain of rabbits with congenital simple nonsyndromic coronal suture synostosis. Part I: Breeding demographics, inheritance pattern, and craniofacial anomalies. Cleft Palate Craniofac J. 1994 Jan; 31(1):1-7.