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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Circumferential fixation with craniofacial miniplates for a cervical spine injury in a child.

30 Oct 2009 Unstable pediatric cervical spine injuries present significant challenges in terms of fixation. Given the smaller cervical vertebral bodies in the preschool-aged population, commercially available pediatric cervical fixation instrumentation may be ... Read more...

Craniofacial venous malformations: magnetic resonance imaging features that predict treatment outcome.

30 Oct 2009 PURPOSE: Craniofacial venous malformations (VMs) are challenging lesions. Treatment is not routinely indicated unless the benefit and loss have been weighed properly. Therefore it is crucial to predict clinical outcome before treatment. This study ... Read more...

A long-snouted, multihorned tyrannosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia.

3 Oct 2009 Tyrannosaurid theropods are characterized by a generalized body plan, and all well-known taxa possess deep and robust skulls that are optimized for exerting powerful bite forces. The fragmentary Late Cretaceous Alioramus appears to deviate from this ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Skull'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Circumferential fixation with craniofacial miniplates for a cervical spine injury in a child. 30 Oct 2009
• Craniofacial venous malformations: magnetic resonance imaging features that predict treatment outcome. 30 Oct 2009
• A long-snouted, multihorned tyrannosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. 3 Oct 2009
• The Ardipithecus ramidus skull and its implications for hominid origins. 30 Sep 2009
• Ardipithecus ramidus and the paleobiology of early hominids. 30 Sep 2009
• Ardipithecus ramidus. The view from Afar. 30 Sep 2009
• Ardipithecus ramidus. A new kind of ancestor: Ardipithecus unveiled. 30 Sep 2009
• Modern human cranial diversity in the Late Pleistocene of Africa and Eurasia: evidence from Nazlet Khater, Pestera cu Oase, and Hofmeyr. 29 Sep 2009
• Congruence of individual cranial bone morphology and neutral molecular affinity patterns in modern humans. 29 Sep 2009
• Historiography and forensic analysis of the Fort King George "skull": craniometric assessment using the specific population approach. 29 Sep 2009
• Bronchial abnormalities found in a consecutive series of 40 brachycephalic dogs. 29 Sep 2009
• Craniofacial characteristics of patients with heart disease. 29 Sep 2009
• Expanding the clinical and neuroradiologic phenotype of primary microcephaly due to ASPM mutations. 20 Sep 2009
• Tyrannosaurid skeletal design first evolved at small body size. 15 Sep 2009
• In vivo performance of simvastatin-loaded electrospun spiral-wound polycaprolactone scaffolds in reconstruction of cranial bone defects in the rat model. 13 Sep 2009
• Archaeology. Ancient DNA says Europe's first farmers came from afar. 2 Sep 2009
• Skull flexure from blast waves: a mechanism for brain injury with implications for helmet design. Sep 2009
• Brief communication: "Pathological" deformation in the skull of LB1, the type specimen of Homo floresiensis. 30 Aug 2009
• The type specimen (LB1) of Homo floresiensis did not have Laron syndrome. 30 Aug 2009
• Comparing the accuracy and precision of three techniques used for estimating missing landmarks when reconstructing fossil hominin crania. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Skull'

Definition: The SKELETON of the HEAD including the FACIAL BONES and the bones enclosing the BRAIN.

Descriptor UI: D012886

Alternative terms: Skull; Skulls; Cranium; Calvaria; Calvarium;

Related Mesh Headings: Cephalometry; Craniotomy; Intracranial Pressure; Trephining;

Allowable Qualifiers: abnormalities; anatomy & histology; blood supply; cytology; drug effects; embryology; enzymology; growth & development; immunology; injuries; innervation; metabolism; microbiology; parasitology; pathology; physiology; physiopathology; radiation effects; radiography; radionuclide imaging; surgery; transplantation; ultrastructure; ultrasonography; chemistry; virology;

Tree Number: A02.835.232.781;

Technical Notes: bony part of head only; differentiate from HEAD & FACE; "cranial" is SKULL; /abnorm: consider also CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; /anat: consider also CEPHALOMETRY; /inj "cranio-cerebral inj" is CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA (or its specifics) only & not also here unless particularly discussed; /surg: consider also CRANIOTOMY & TREPHINING; "craniofacial dysmorphism" or "craniofacial fibrous dysplasia": index under FACIAL BONES (IM) + SKULL (IM) + FIBROUS DYSPLASIA, POLYOSTOTIC (IM)