"Abdomen" 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.
That portion of the body that lies between the THORAX and the PELVIS.
| Descriptor ID |
D000005
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A01.923.047
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Abdomen" by people in Profiles.
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Body composition from single versus multi-slice abdominal computed tomography: Concordance and associations with colorectal cancer survival. J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle. 2022 12; 13(6):2974-2984.
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Predicting pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma using artificial intelligence analysis of pre-diagnostic computed tomography images. Cancer Biomark. 2022; 33(2):211-217.
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Trends in Use of Medical Imaging in US Health Care Systems and in Ontario, Canada, 2000-2016. JAMA. 2019 09 03; 322(9):843-856.
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Abdominal obesity and the risk of esophageal and gastric cardia carcinomas. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008 Feb; 17(2):352-8.
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Abdominal obesity, ethnicity and gastro-oesophageal reflux symptoms. Gut. 2007 Jun; 56(6):756-62.
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Value of the sagittal abdominal diameter in coronary heart disease risk assessment: cohort study in a large, multiethnic population. Am J Epidemiol. 2006 Dec 15; 164(12):1150-9.
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Lower-body adiposity and metabolic protection in postmenopausal women. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2005 Aug; 90(8):4573-8.
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Abdominal obesity predicts declining insulin sensitivity in non-obese normoglycaemics: the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study (IRAS). Diabetes Obes Metab. 2005 May; 7(3):230-8.
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Associations of general and abdominal obesity with multiple health outcomes in older women: the Iowa Women's Health Study. Arch Intern Med. 2000 Jul 24; 160(14):2117-28.
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Lower extremity iatrogenic nerve injury due to compression during intraabdominal surgery. Am J Surg. 1997 Jun; 173(6):504-8.