"Cisterna Magna" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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One of three principal openings in the SUBARACHNOID SPACE. They are also known as cerebellomedullary cistern, and collectively as cisterns.
| Descriptor ID |
D002946
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.186.566.166.686.351
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| 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Cisterna Magna" by people in Profiles.
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Cerebrospinal Fluid Diversion from the Cisterna Magna in Patients with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension and Slit Ventricles: Long-Term Effectiveness, Revision Rates, and Clinical Outcomes. World Neurosurg. 2024 06; 186:e326-e334.
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Cerebrospinal fluid hydrocephalus shunting: cisterna magna, ventricular frontal, ventricular occipital. Neurosurg Rev. 2022 Aug; 45(4):2615-2638.
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FOXC1 is required for normal cerebellar development and is a major contributor to chromosome 6p25.3 Dandy-Walker malformation. Nat Genet. 2009 Sep; 41(9):1037-42.
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Neuroprotective effect of the surfactant poloxamer 188 in a model of intracranial hemorrhage in rats. J Neurosurg. 2007 Jan; 106(1 Suppl):36-40.
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Pseudotumor cerebri patients with shunts from the cisterna magna: clinical course and telemetric intracranial pressure data. Neurosurgery. 2004 Nov; 55(5):1094-9.
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Poloxamer 188 volumetrically decreases neuronal loss in the rat in a time-dependent manner. Neurosurgery. 2004 Oct; 55(4):943-8; discussion 948-9.
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Germline and mosaic mutations of FLN1 in men with periventricular heterotopia. Neurology. 2004 Jul 13; 63(1):51-6.
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Prevention of experimental cerebral vasospasm by intracranial delivery of a nitric oxide donor from a controlled-release polymer: toxicity and efficacy studies in rabbits and rats. Stroke. 2002 Nov; 33(11):2681-6.
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Intracisternal sodium nitroprusside fails to prevent vasospasm in nonhuman primates. Neurosurgery. 2002 Sep; 51(3):761-8; discussion 768-70.
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Failure of intracisternal tissue plasminogen activator to prevent vasospasm in certain patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Neurosurgery. 1994 May; 34(5):809-13; discussion 813-4.