"Extremities" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The farthest or outermost projections of the body, such as the HAND and FOOT.
| Descriptor ID |
D005121
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A01.378
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| Concept/Terms |
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Extremities".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Extremities".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Extremities" by people in this website by year, and whether "Extremities" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Extremities" by people in Profiles.
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Extremity rhabdomyosarcoma in children, adolescents and young adults: A report from Children's Oncology Group trials. Cancer. 2025 Jun 15; 131(12):e35929.
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Effectiveness and safety of tourniquet utilization for civilian vascular extremity trauma in the pre-hospital settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis. World J Emerg Surg. 2024 Mar 19; 19(1):10.
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AIns (insulin) type amyloidoma of the extremity diagnosed by fine-needle aspiration. Diagn Cytopathol. 2024 May; 52(5):E116-E119.
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Role of non-chromosomal birth defects on the risk of developing childhood Hodgkin lymphoma: A Children's Oncology Group study. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2024 Mar; 71(3):e30822.
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Common orthopaedic trauma may explain 31,000-year-old remains. Nature. 2023 03; 615(7952):E13-E14.
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Action-based organization of a cerebellar module specialized for predictive control of multiple body parts. Neuron. 2021 09 15; 109(18):2981-2994.e5.
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Repair of a Proximal Digit Defect. Dermatol Surg. 2022 08 01; 48(8):871-873.
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Dose-response analysis of microvasculature changes in the murine fetal brain and the maternal extremities due to prenatal ethanol exposure. J Biomed Opt. 2020 11; 25(12).
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Implementing global chronic limb-threatening ischemia guidelines in clinical practice: Utility of the Society for Vascular Surgery Threatened Limb Classification System (WIfI). J Vasc Surg. 2020 10; 72(4):1451-1452.
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Extremity anomalies associated with Robinow syndrome. Am J Med Genet A. 2021 12; 185(12):3584-3592.