Petrous Bone
"Petrous Bone" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The dense rock-like part of temporal bone that contains the INNER EAR. Petrous bone is located at the base of the skull. Sometimes it is combined with the MASTOID PROCESS and called petromastoid part of temporal bone.
| Descriptor ID |
D010579
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A02.835.232.781.885.681
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| Concept/Terms |
Petrous Bone- Petrous Bone
- Bone, Petrous
- Bones, Petrous
- Petrous Bones
- Petrous Pyramid
- Petrous Pyramids
- Pyramid, Petrous
- Pyramids, Petrous
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Petrous Bone" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Lovin BD, Page JC, Vrabec JT. Imaging of Alternobaric Facial Palsy: An Etiologic Hypothesis. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol. 2023 Sep; 132(9):1059-1067.
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Ibn Essayed W, Aboud E, Al-Mefty O. Combined Microscopic-Endoscopic Transmastoid Resection of a Petrous Meningioma: 2-Dimensional Operative Video. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2021 11 15; 21(6):E528-E529.