"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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| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Occipital Bone" by people in Profiles.
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Population-level assessment of atlas occipitalization in artificially modified crania from pre-Hispanic Peru. PLoS One. 2020; 15(9):e0239600.
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Blunt vertebral artery injury in occipital condyle fractures. J Neurosurg Spine. 2018 Nov 01; 29(5):500-505.
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Patient-reported outcomes of occipitocervical and atlantoaxial fusions in children. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2017 Jan; 19(1):85-90.
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Long-term growth and alignment after occipitocervical and atlantoaxial fusion with rigid internal fixation in young children. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2016 Jan; 17(1):94-102.
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Dyspnea and dysphagia from upper airway obstruction after occipitocervical fusion in the pediatric age group. Neurosurg Focus. 2015 Apr; 38(4):E13.
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Fixation with C-2 laminar screws in occipitocervical or C1-2 constructs in children 5 years of age or younger: a series of 18 patients. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2014 Jul; 14(1):87-93.
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Safety and efficacy of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein 2 on cranial defect closure in the pediatric population. J Craniofac Surg. 2013 May; 24(3):917-22.
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Complications of occipital screw placement for occipitocervical fusion in children. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2012 Jun; 9(6):586-93.
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Biomechanical implications of extending occipitocervical instrumentation to include the subaxial spine. Neurosurgery. 2010 Jun; 66(6):1148-52; discussion 1152.
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Equivalence of fusion rates after rigid internal fixation of the occiput to C-2 with or without C-1 instrumentation. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2010 Apr; 5(4):380-4.