"Sciatic Nerve" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A nerve which originates in the lumbar and sacral spinal cord (L4 to S3) and supplies motor and sensory innervation to the lower extremity. The sciatic nerve, which is the main continuation of the sacral plexus, is the largest nerve in the body. It has two major branches, the TIBIAL NERVE and the PERONEAL NERVE.
| Descriptor ID |
D012584
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.800.800.720.450.760
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| Concept/Terms |
Sciatic Nerve- Sciatic Nerve
- Nerve, Sciatic
- Nerves, Sciatic
- Sciatic Nerves
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2008 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sciatic Nerve" by people in Profiles.
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Are the Placement, Maintenance, and Removal of Femoral and Sciatic Catheters Associated With Bleeding Complications in Vascular Patients on Antithrombotics? A Single-Center, Retrospective Cohort Study. Anesth Analg. 2022 01 01; 134(1):188-193.
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Intraoperative monitoring of the femoral and sciatic nerves in total hip arthroplasty with high-riding developmental dysplasia. Bone Joint J. 2019 Nov; 101-B(11):1438-1446.
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Profound analgesia is associated with a truncated peptide resulting from tissue specific alternative splicing of DRG CA8-204 regulated by an exon-level cis-eQTL. PLoS Genet. 2019 06; 15(6):e1008226.
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Neonatal Hypoxia Results in Peripheral Nerve Abnormalities. Am J Pathol. 2017 Feb; 187(2):245-251.
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Adenomatous polyposis coli regulates radial axonal sorting and myelination in the PNS. Development. 2016 07 01; 143(13):2356-66.
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Variability in locations of hip neurovascular structures and their proximity to hip arthroscopic portals. Arthroscopy. 2014 Apr; 30(4):462-7.
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Blood-nerve barrier dysfunction contributes to the generation of neuropathic pain and allows targeting of injured nerves for pain relief. Pain. 2014 May; 155(5):954-967.
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Percutaneous retrograde posterior column acetabular fixation: is the sciatic nerve safe? A cadaveric study. J Orthop Trauma. 2014 Jan; 28(1):37-40.
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Functional outcomes following multiple acute rejections in experimental vascularized composite allotransplantation. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2013 May; 131(5):720e-730e.
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Transplantation of neural crest-like cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells improves diabetic polyneuropathy in mice. Cell Transplant. 2013; 22(10):1767-83.