 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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sclera" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Sclera" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sclera" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Elhusseiny AM, Hassan AK, Elsaman AS, Azhari JO, VanderVeen DK, Abdelnaem S, Pakravan M, Chang TC, Khodeiry MM, Khouri AS, Sayed MS, Lee RK, Sallam AB. Continuous Wave Transscleral Cyclophotocoagulation and Endoscopic Cyclophotocoagulation in Childhood Glaucoma: A Meta-Analysis. J Glaucoma. 2024 Jun 01; 33(6):456-463.
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Pakravan M, Hatami M, Esfandiari H, Yazdani S, Doozandeh A, Samaeili A, Kheiri B, Conner I. Ahmed Glaucoma Valve Implantation: Graft-Free Short Tunnel Small Flap versus Scleral Patch Graft after 1-Year Follow-up: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Ophthalmol Glaucoma. 2018 Nov - Dec; 1(3):206-212.
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Pakravan M, Hekmat VR, Pakravan P, Hassanpour K, Esfandiari H. Graft-free glaucoma drainage device implantation: Short tunnel small flap technique. Eur J Ophthalmol. 2019 Jan; 29(1):57-60.
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