"Metacarpal Bones" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The five cylindrical bones of the METACARPUS, articulating with the CARPAL BONES proximally and the PHALANGES OF FINGERS distally.
| Descriptor ID |
D050279
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A02.835.232.087.319.550
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| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Metacarpal Bones" by people in Profiles.
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The First Dorsal Metacarpal Artery Perforator Free Flap: The Comet Flap. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2022 09 01; 150(3):671e-674e.
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Novel Use of an Internal Distractor for Metacarpal Lengthening. Hand (N Y). 2023 06; 18(4):598-603.
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Is this the Coffin-Siris syndrome or the BOD syndrome? Am J Med Genet A. 2009 Mar; 149A(3):559-62.
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Early outcome of spherical ceramic trapezial-metacarpal arthroplasty. J Hand Surg Am. 2009 Feb; 34(2):213-8.