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 77 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 10 publications in 2016

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	0	1	1
2000	0	1	1
2003	1	1	2
2004	1	2	3
2005	1	3	4
2006	0	1	1
2007	2	3	5
2008	1	0	1
2010	0	1	1
2011	1	3	4
2012	1	4	5
2013	3	1	4
2014	5	1	6
2015	4	0	4
2016	9	1	10
2017	3	0	3
2018	2	4	6
2019	3	0	3
2020	7	1	8
2021	1	3	4
2023	0	1	1

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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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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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Yu J, Syed ZA, Rapuano CJ. Infectious Scleritis: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management. Eye Contact Lens. 2021 08 01; 47(8):434-441.

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Vingopoulos F, Nair A, See CW, Iyengar N, Haberman I, Sperber L, Lazzaro DR, Singh R, Ho A, Gupta O, Sharma S, Modi Y. POSITION OF IN-THE-BAG POSTERIOR CHAMBER INTRAOCULAR LENSES RELATIVE TO THE LIMBUS: Applications to Scleral-Sutured Lenses. Retina. 2021 Jul 01; 41(7):1533-1540.

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Wong HM, Kam KW, Rapuano CJ, Young AL. A Systematic Review on Three Major Types of Scleral-Fixated Intraocular Lens Implantation. Asia Pac J Ophthalmol (Phila). 2021 Jan 19; 10(4):388-396.

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Swogger J, Conner IP, Rosano M, Kemmerer M, Happ-Smith C, Wells A, Schuman JS, Yates CC. Injected Versus Sponge-Applied Mitomycin C (MMC) During Modified Trabeculectomy in New Zealand White Rabbit Model. Transl Vis Sci Technol. 2020 10; 9(11):23.

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Fathy CA, Lally SE, Syed ZA. In the Context of Cicatricial Disease. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2020 10 01; 138(10):1095-1096.

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Hua Y, Voorhees AP, Jan NJ, Wang B, Waxman S, Schuman JS, Sigal IA. Role of radially aligned scleral collagen fibers in optic nerve head biomechanics. Exp Eye Res. 2020 10; 199:108188.

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Watane A, Botsford BW, Sood AB, Williams AM, Xu D, Gupta RR, Conner IP, Sivalingam A, Gupta OP, Ward MS, Mehta S, Cid MD, Crossan A, Sierpina DI, Hwang FS, Rachitskaya A, Ehmann DS, Kovacs KD, Orlin A, Zhang AY, Patel U, Dubovy S, Klufas MA, Patel NA, Sridhar J, Yannuzzi NA. Scleral-Sutured Intraocular Lens Dislocations Secondary to Eyelet Fractures. Am J Ophthalmol. 2021 01; 221:273-278.

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Patel LG, Starr MR, Ammar MJ, Yonekawa Y. Scleral fixated secondary intraocular lenses: a review of recent literature. Curr Opin Ophthalmol. 2020 May; 31(3):161-166.

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