"Coccyx" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The last bone in the VERTEBRAL COLUMN in tailless primates considered to be a vestigial tail-bone consisting of three to five fused VERTEBRAE.
| Descriptor ID |
D003050
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A02.835.232.834.229
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Coccyx" by people in Profiles.
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Coccygectomy for refractory coccygodynia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur Spine J. 2022 01; 31(1):176-189.
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Influence of psychiatric disorders and chronic pain on the surgical outcome in the patient with chronic coccydynia: a single institution's experience. Neurol Res. 2020 Sep; 42(9):789-794.
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Resection of a Perirectal Leiomyosarcoma via a Posterior Transcoccygeal Approach. Ann Surg Oncol. 2018 Sep; 25(9):2641.
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Abnormal umbilical cord Doppler sonograms may predict impending demise in fetuses with sacrococcygeal teratoma. A report of two cases. Fetal Diagn Ther. 2004 Jan-Feb; 19(1):35-9.
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An unusual case of the complete Currarino triad: case report, discussion of the literature and the embryogenic implications. Neurosurgery. 1999 Mar; 44(3):658-62.