"Sphenoid Bone" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An irregular unpaired bone situated at the SKULL BASE and wedged between the frontal, temporal, and occipital bones (FRONTAL BONE; TEMPORAL BONE; OCCIPITAL BONE). Sphenoid bone consists of a median body and three pairs of processes resembling a bat with spread wings. The body is hollowed out in its inferior to form two large cavities (SPHENOID SINUS).
| Descriptor ID |
D013100
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A02.835.232.781.802
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| Concept/Terms |
Sphenoid Bone- Sphenoid Bone
- Bone, Sphenoid
- Bones, Sphenoid
- Sphenoid Bones
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| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sphenoid Bone" by people in Profiles.
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Cote DJ, Dasenbrock HH, Muskens IS, Broekman MLD, Zaidi HA, Dunn IF, Smith TR, Laws ER. Readmission and Other Adverse Events after Transsphenoidal Surgery: Prevalence, Timing, and Predictive Factors. J Am Coll Surg. 2017 May; 224(5):971-979.
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Henderson AD, Morcos JJ, Fischer OG, Lam BL, Pasol J. Invasive Aspergillosis Mimicking Sphenoid Wing Meningioma. J Neuroophthalmol. 2017 03; 37(1):105-106.
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Zaidi HA, De Los Reyes K, Barkhoudarian G, Litvack ZN, Bi WL, Rincon-Torroella J, Mukundan S, Dunn IF, Laws ER. The utility of high-resolution intraoperative MRI in endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary macroadenomas: early experience in the Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating suite. Neurosurg Focus. 2016 Mar; 40(3):E18.
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Cote DJ, Wiemann R, Smith TR, Dunn IF, Al-Mefty O, Laws ER. The Expanding Spectrum of Disease Treated by the Transnasal, Transsphenoidal Microscopic and Endoscopic Anterior Skull Base Approach: A Single-Center Experience 2008-2015. World Neurosurg. 2015 Oct; 84(4):899-905.
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De Los Reyes KM, Gross BA, Frerichs KU, Dunn IF, Lin N, Rincon-Torroella J, Annino DJ, Laws ER. Incidence, risk factors and management of severe post-transsphenoidal epistaxis. J Clin Neurosci. 2015 Jan; 22(1):116-22.
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Taha AN, Erkmen K, Dunn IF, Pravdenkova S, Al-Mefty O. Meningiomas involving the optic canal: pattern of involvement and implications for surgical technique. Neurosurg Focus. 2011 May; 30(5):E12.
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Cook SW, Smith Z, Kelly DF. Endonasal transsphenoidal removal of tuberculum sellae meningiomas: technical note. Neurosurgery. 2004 Jul; 55(1):239-44; discussion 244-6.