"Inguinal Canal" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The tunnel in the lower anterior ABDOMINAL WALL through which the SPERMATIC CORD, in the male; ROUND LIGAMENT, in the female; nerves; and vessels pass. Its internal end is at the deep inguinal ring and its external end is at the superficial inguinal ring.
| Descriptor ID |
D007264
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A01.923.047.412
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| Concept/Terms |
Inguinal Canal- Inguinal Canal
- Canal, Inguinal
- Canals, Inguinal
- Inguinal Canals
Inguinal Ring- Inguinal Ring
- Inguinal Rings
- Ring, Inguinal
- Rings, Inguinal
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Inguinal Canal" by people in Profiles.
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Advanced penile cancer. Int Urol Nephrol. 2012 Feb; 44(1):139-48.
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Risk stratification in penile carcinoma: 25-year experience with surgical inguinal lymph node staging. Urology. 2006 Sep; 68(3):621-5.
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Predictors of complications after inguinal lymphadenectomy. Gynecol Oncol. 2001 Aug; 82(2):329-32.
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Differential effect of taxol in rat primary and metastatic prostate tumors: site-dependent pharmacodynamics. Pharm Res. 1996 Sep; 13(9):1305-12.