"Muscle Cramp" 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.
A sustained and usually painful contraction of muscle fibers. This may occur as an isolated phenomenon or as a manifestation of an underlying disease process (e.g., UREMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; etc.). (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1398)
| Descriptor ID |
D009120
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C05.651.475 C10.597.613.500 C23.888.592.608.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Muscle Cramp- Muscle Cramp
- Cramp, Muscle
- Cramps, Muscle
- Muscle Cramps
- Muscular Cramp
- Cramp, Muscular
- Cramps, Muscular
- Muscular Cramps
- Cramp
- Cramps
Limb Cramp- Limb Cramp
- Cramp, Limb
- Cramps, Limb
- Limb Cramps
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Muscle Cramp" by people in Profiles.
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Neuropathy and Muscle Cramps in Autologous and Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Survivors. Transplant Cell Ther. 2022 09; 28(9):608.e1-608.e9.
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Electrolyte beverage consumption alters electrically induced cramping threshold. Muscle Nerve. 2019 11; 60(5):598-603.
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Safety of bosutinib versus imatinib in the phase 3 BELA trial in newly diagnosed chronic phase chronic myeloid leukemia. Am J Hematol. 2014 Oct; 89(10):947-53.
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Muscle cramping over the diagnosis. Surv Ophthalmol. 2014 Jan-Feb; 59(1):128-31.
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Autosomal recessive rolandic epilepsy with paroxysmal exercise-induced dystonia and writer's cramp: delineation of the syndrome and gene mapping to chromosome 16p12-11.2. Ann Neurol. 1999 Mar; 45(3):344-52.
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Use of botulinum toxin in the treatment of hand dystonia. J Hand Surg Am. 1993 Sep; 18(5):883-7.
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Human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) and tropical spastic paraparesis or HTLV-I-associated myelopathy in Hawaii. West J Med. 1990 Mar; 152(3):261-7.