"Oculomotor Muscles" 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.
The muscles that move the eye. Included in this group are the medial rectus, lateral rectus, superior rectus, inferior rectus, inferior oblique, superior oblique, musculus orbitalis, and levator palpebrae superioris.
| Descriptor ID |
D009801
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A02.633.567.700
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| Concept/Terms |
Oculomotor Muscles- Oculomotor Muscles
- Muscle, Oculomotor
- Muscles, Oculomotor
- Oculomotor Muscle
- Extraocular Muscles
- Extraocular Muscle
Oblique Muscles, Extraocular- Oblique Muscles, Extraocular
- Extraocular Oblique Muscle
- Extraocular Oblique Muscles
- Oblique Muscle, Extraocular
- Oblique Extraocular Muscles
- Extraocular Muscle, Oblique
- Extraocular Muscles, Oblique
- Oblique Extraocular Muscle
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Oculomotor Muscles" by people in Profiles.
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Antisynthetase Syndrome Causing Necrotizing Myositis Involving Extraocular Muscles. Ophthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg. 2024 Jul-Aug 01; 40(4):e111-e114.
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Local retinoic acid signaling directs emergence of the extraocular muscle functional unit. PLoS Biol. 2020 11; 18(11):e3000902.
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Scleritis and Retinal Detachment After Strabismus Surgery in a Patient With Thyroid Eye Disease. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2020 11 01; 138(11):1209-1210.
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Trapdoor orbital floor fracture and inferior rectus entrapment with minimal infraduction deficit and hypertropia. Can J Ophthalmol. 2018 12; 53(6):e252-e254.
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Proximal tarsal attachments of the levator aponeurosis: implications for blepharoptosis repair. Ophthalmology. 2013 Sep; 120(9):1924-9.
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An inherited TUBB2B mutation alters a kinesin-binding site and causes polymicrogyria, CFEOM and axon dysinnervation. Hum Mol Genet. 2012 Dec 15; 21(26):5484-99.
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Histopathologic changes in the extraocular muscle in centronuclear myopathy with a Dynamin 2 mutation. Ophthalmic Genet. 2013 Mar-Jun; 34(1-2):83-6.
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Quantitative computed tomographic predictors of compressive optic neuropathy in patients with thyroid orbitopathy: a volumetric analysis. Ophthalmology. 2012 Oct; 119(10):2174-8.
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Delayed synapse elimination in mouse levator palpebrae superioris muscle. J Comp Neurol. 2011 Oct 15; 519(15):2907-21.
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Clinical and soft-tissue computed tomographic predictors of dysthyroid optic neuropathy: refinement of the constellation of findings at presentation. Arch Ophthalmol. 2011 Oct; 129(10):1332-6.