Sclera

"Sclera" 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.

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The white, opaque, fibrous, outer tunic of the eyeball, covering it entirely excepting the segment covered anteriorly by the cornea. It is essentially avascular but contains apertures for vessels, lymphatics, and nerves. It receives the tendons of insertion of the extraocular muscles and at the corneoscleral junction contains the canal of Schlemm. (From Cline et al., Dictionary of Visual Science, 4th ed)

Descriptor ID	D012590
MeSH Number(s)	A09.371.784
Concept/Terms	Sclera Sclera Scleras

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Anatomy [A]
Sense Organs [A09]
Eye [A09.371]
Sclera [A09.371.784]

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Bar chart showing 86 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2020

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	1	2	3
1997	2	1	3
1999	3	2	5
2000	0	1	1
2001	1	0	1
2003	1	0	1
2004	1	1	2
2005	1	2	3
2006	1	0	1
2007	2	3	5
2008	2	1	3
2010	0	1	1
2011	1	4	5
2012	0	2	2
2013	1	2	3
2014	4	2	6
2015	4	0	4
2016	6	1	7
2017	3	0	3
2018	2	2	4
2019	4	0	4
2020	7	1	8
2021	0	2	2
2022	0	2	2
2023	0	2	2
2024	3	0	3
2025	2	0	2

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Shields CL, Suribhatla R, Romero M, Ealer C, Bansal R, Emrich J, Komarnicky-Kocher L, Lally SE. TISSUE GLUE-ASSISTED PLAQUE RADIOTHERAPY FOR CHOROIDAL TUMORS WITH SCLERAL THINNING. Retina. 2025 04 01; 45(4):675-682.

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Durrani AF, Momenaei B, Martin JL, Wakabayashi T, Hamdan SA, Gupta OP, Garg SJ, Khan MA, Mehta S, Vander J, Ho AC, Kuriyan AE. OUTCOMES IN EYES WITH RETAINED LENS FRAGMENTS UNDERGOING PARS PLANA LENSECTOMY AND SCLERAL-FIXATED INTRAOCULAR LENS INSERTION. Retina. 2025 02 01; 45(2):269-277.

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Starr MR, Ferenchak K, Mogil R. SCLERAL SUTURED TORIC INTRAOCULAR LENS WITH PARS PLANA VITRECTOMY FOR THE CORRECTION OF CORNEAL ASTIGMATISM WITHOUT CAPSULAR SUPPORT. Retin Cases Brief Rep. 2024 Nov 01; 18(6):665-668.

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Mahmoudzadeh R, Oh GJ, Patel N, Patel SN, Tien T, Xu D, Finklea BD, Gupta OP, Ayres BD, Khan MA. Pars plana vitrectomy and scleral-fixated intraocular lenses: comparison of Gore-Tex suture and flanged intrascleral haptic fixation techniques. Can J Ophthalmol. 2025 02; 60(1):e65-e72.

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Mogil RS, Ferenchak K, Starr MR. GORE-TEX SUTURE-ASSOCIATED ENDOPHTHALMITIS IN A SCLERAL-SUTURED INTRAOCULAR LENS. Retin Cases Brief Rep. 2024 May 01; 18(3):293-295.

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Vagaggini T, Adams OE, Curran CD, Prairie ML, Baker MJ, Sastry A, Ryan EH, Parke DW, Mittra RA, Tang PH. Clinical Factors and Outcomes of Acute-Onset Endophthalmitis Following Small-Gauge Pars Plana Vitrectomy Surgery. Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina. 2023 07; 54(7):395-400.

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Stamer WD, Perkumas KM, Kang MH, Dibas M, Robinson MR, Rhee DJ. Proposed Mechanism of Long-Term Intraocular Pressure Lowering With the Bimatoprost Implant. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2023 03 01; 64(3):15.

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Pakravan P, Patel V, Chau V, Rohowetz L, Lai J, Fan KC, Al-Khersan H, Melo IM, Muni RH, Tsao SW, Kaplan R, Jung JJ, Hoyek S, Patel NA, Kuriyan AE, Laura DM, Mantopoulos D, Syed ZA, Yannuzzi NA. Haptic Erosion Following Sutureless Scleral-fixated Intraocular Lens Placement. Ophthalmol Retina. 2023 04; 7(4):333-337.

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Patel M, Wingert AM, Sridhar J. Blue Sclera and Retinal Hyperpigmentation in a Patient With Long-term Minocycline Use. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2022 06 01; 140(6):e221848.

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Zhu Z, Waxman S, Wang B, Wallace J, Schmitt SE, Tyler-Kabara E, Ishikawa H, Schuman JS, Smith MA, Wollstein G, Sigal IA. Interplay between intraocular and intracranial pressure effects on the optic nerve head in vivo. Exp Eye Res. 2021 12; 213:108809.

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