 Sclera
"Sclera" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The white, opaque, fibrous, outer tunic of the eyeball, covering it entirely excepting the segment covered anteriorly by the cornea. It is essentially avascular but contains apertures for vessels, lymphatics, and nerves. It receives the tendons of insertion of the extraocular muscles and at the corneoscleral junction contains the canal of Schlemm. (From Cline et al., Dictionary of Visual Science, 4th ed)
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D012590
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A09.371.784
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| 1993 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sclera" by people in Profiles.
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Raevis J, Hariprasad SM, Shrier E. The Depressing Part of Retina: A Review of Scleral Depression and Scleral Indentation. Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina. 2021 02 01; 52(2):58-60.
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Hilkert SM, Koreishi AF, Pyatetsky D. Poststreptococcal syndrome presenting as posterior scleritis in a child. J AAPOS. 2017 Apr; 21(2):163-165.
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Paley GL, Echalier E, Eck TW, Hong AR, Farooq AV, Gregory DG, Lubniewski AJ. Corneoscleral Laceration and Ocular Burns Caused by Electronic Cigarette Explosions. Cornea. 2016 Jul; 35(7):1015-8.
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Zhavoronkov A, Izumchenko E, Kanherkar RR, Teka M, Cantor C, Manaye K, Sidransky D, West MD, Makarev E, Csoka AB. Pro-fibrotic pathway activation in trabecular meshwork and lamina cribrosa is the main driving force of glaucoma. Cell Cycle. 2016 06 17; 15(12):1643-52.
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Turaga K, Senthil S, Jalali S. Recurrent spontaneous scleral rupture in Marfan's syndrome. BMJ Case Rep. 2016 May 19; 2016.
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Shukla SY, Batra NN, Ittiara ST, Hariprasad SM. Reassessment of Scleral Depression in the Clinical Setting. Ophthalmology. 2015 Nov; 122(11):2360-1.
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Ittiara S, Sanduja N, Chiranand P, Rosenberg K, Aurora A, Hariprasad SM. Hot, liquid glass injury as a novel mechanism for intraocular foreign body. Eye (Lond). 2012 Aug; 26(8):1145-9.
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Hariprasad SM, Singh A. Polyethylene glycol hydrogel polymer sealant for vitrectomy surgery: an in vitro study of sutureless vitrectomy incision closure. Arch Ophthalmol. 2011 Mar; 129(3):322-5.
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Singh A, Hosseini M, Hariprasad SM. Polyethylene glycol hydrogel polymer sealant for closure of sutureless sclerotomies: a histologic study. Am J Ophthalmol. 2010 Sep; 150(3):346-351.e2.
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El-Kamary SS, Shardell MD, Abdel-Hamid M, Ismail S, El-Ateek M, Metwally M, Mikhail N, Hashem M, Mousa A, Aboul-Fotouh A, El-Kassas M, Esmat G, Strickland GT. A randomized controlled trial to assess the safety and efficacy of silymarin on symptoms, signs and biomarkers of acute hepatitis. Phytomedicine. 2009 May; 16(5):391-400.
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