"Middle East" 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 region of southwest Asia and northeastern Africa usually considered as extending from Libya on the west to Afghanistan on the east. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988)
| Descriptor ID |
D008877
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.252.245.500
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Middle East" by people in Profiles.
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Hemo O, Dotan A, Shvero A, Kleinmann N, Dotan ZA, Zilberman DE. High ambient temperature impact on the pattern of emergency-room visits due to renal colic in the Middle East. Urolithiasis. 2024 Apr 02; 52(1):54.
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Hoveidaei AH, Nakhostin-Ansari A, Namdari S, Hosseini-Asl SH, Khonji MS, Selk-Ghaffari M, Pouramini A, LaPorte DM. Increasing Burden of Upper-Extremity Fractures in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): A 30-Year Analysis of the Epidemiology and Causes of Injuries. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2024 Feb 21; 106(4):323-336.
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Mohamad J, Samuelov L, Malchin N, Rabinowitz T, Assaf S, Malki L, Malovitski K, Israeli S, Grafi-Cohen M, Bitterman-Deutsch O, Molho-Pessach V, Cohen-Barak E, Bach G, Garty BZ, Bergman R, Harel A, Nanda A, Lestringant GG, McGrath J, Shalev S, Shomron N, Mashiah J, Eskin-Schwartz M, Sprecher E, Sarig O. Molecular epidemiology of non-syndromic autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis in a Middle-Eastern population. Exp Dermatol. 2021 09; 30(9):1290-1297.
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Damlaj M, Gmati G, Syed G, Pasha T, Salama H, Ali O, Abuelgasim KA, Al-Zahrani M, Al Askar A, Alhejazi A. Limited role of bone marrow biopsy for detection of marrow involvement in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma from the Middle East and North Africa region. Hematol Oncol Stem Cell Ther. 2018 Jun; 11(2):114-117.
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Asadi-Pooya AA, Sperling MR. Do foods precipitate seizures? A cross-cultural comparison. Epilepsy Behav. 2007 Nov; 11(3):450-3.
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Oumeish OY, Wolf R, Parish LC. Dedication: gearing up for war. Clin Dermatol. 2002 Jul-Aug; 20(4):327.
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Rivkind AI, Eid A, Weingart E, Izhar U, Barach P, Richter ED, Belzberg H. Complications from supervised mask use in post-operative surgical patients during the Gulf War. Prehosp Disaster Med. 1999 Apr-Jun; 14(2):107-8.
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Buckley SL, Alexander A, Jones M, Culp RW, Smallman T. Arthroscopic surgery of the knee: its role in the support of U.S. troops during Operation Desert Shield on USNS mercy. Arthroscopy. 1992; 8(3):359-62.