"Thoracic Nerves" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The twelve spinal nerves on each side of the thorax. They include eleven INTERCOSTAL NERVES and one subcostal nerve. Both sensory and motor, they supply the muscles and skin of the thoracic and abdominal walls.
| Descriptor ID |
D013900
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.800.800.720.800
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| Concept/Terms |
Thoracic Nerves- Thoracic Nerves
- Nerve, Thoracic
- Nerves, Thoracic
- Thoracic Nerve
Pectoral Nerves- Pectoral Nerves
- Nerve, Pectoral
- Nerves, Pectoral
- Pectoral Nerve
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Thoracic Nerves" by people in Profiles.
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Sympathectomy for truncal hyperhydrosis after traumatic paraplegic injury. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2002 Sep; 124(3):636-8.
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Severe incisional pain and long thoracic nerve injury after port-access minimally invasive mitral valve surgery. Anesth Analg. 2000 Aug; 91(2):288-90.
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Effects of coronary artery occlusion on thoracic spinal neurons receiving viscerosomatic inputs. Am J Physiol. 1980 May; 238(5):H667-74.
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Viscerosomatic convergence onto spinal neurons responding to afferent fibers located in the inferior cardiac nerv. Brain Res. 1977 Nov 25; 137(1):164-8.
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Management of Raynaud's phenomenon due to arterial occlusive disease of the wrist and hand. J Cardiovasc Surg (Torino). 1976 Sep-Oct; 17(5):457-63.
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Responses of the canine heart to stimulation of the first five ventral thoracic roots. Am J Physiol. 1974 Jul; 227(1):9-12.