Sclerosis
"Sclerosis" 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.
A pathological process consisting of hardening or fibrosis of an anatomical structure, often a vessel or a nerve.
| Descriptor ID |
D012598
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.550.823
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sclerosis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Sclerosis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1988 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sclerosis" by people in Profiles.
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Lewis DV, Barboriak DP, MacFall JR, Provenzale JM, Mitchell TV, VanLandingham KE. Do prolonged febrile seizures produce medial temporal sclerosis? Hypotheses, MRI evidence and unanswered questions. Prog Brain Res. 2002; 135:263-78.
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Levey JM, Mathai J. Diffuse pancreatic fibrosis: an uncommon feature of multifocal idiopathic fibrosclerosis. Am J Gastroenterol. 1998 Apr; 93(4):640-2.
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Waite RJ, Doherty PW, Liepman M, Woda B. Langerhans cell histiocytosis with the radiographic findings of Erdheim-Chester disease. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 1988 Apr; 150(4):869-71.