 Mediastinum
"Mediastinum" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A membrane in the midline of the THORAX of mammals. It separates the lungs between the STERNUM in front and the VERTEBRAL COLUMN behind. It also surrounds the HEART, TRACHEA, ESOPHAGUS, THYMUS, and LYMPH NODES.
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D008482
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A01.923.761.800.500
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| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mediastinum" by people in Profiles.
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Chechi K, Vijay J, Voisine P, Mathieu P, Boss? Y, Tchernof A, Grundberg E, Richard D. UCP1 expression-associated gene signatures of human epicardial adipose tissue. JCI Insight. 2019 04 18; 4(8).
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Garey CL, Laituri CA, Valusek PA, St Peter SD, Snyder CL. Management of anterior mediastinal masses in children. Eur J Pediatr Surg. 2011 Oct; 21(5):310-3.
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Hendrickson RJ, Bensard DD, Janik JS, Partrick DA. Efficacy of left thoracoscopy and blunt mediastinal dissection during the Nuss procedure for pectus excavatum. J Pediatr Surg. 2005 Aug; 40(8):1312-4.
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Hendrickson RJ, Koniaris LG, Jiang S, Waldman D, Massey HT, Sitzmann JV. Purposeful delay in the repair of a traumatic left common carotid pseudoaneurysm in a bovine aortic arch presenting as a widened mediastinum. J Trauma. 2002 Dec; 53(6):1166-9.
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