Ciliary Body

"Ciliary Body" 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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A ring of tissue extending from the scleral spur to the ora serrata of the RETINA. It consists of the uveal portion and the epithelial portion. The ciliary muscle is in the uveal portion and the ciliary processes are in the epithelial portion.

Descriptor ID	D002924
MeSH Number(s)	A09.371.060.160 A09.371.894.280
Concept/Terms	Ciliary Body Ciliary Body Bodies, Ciliary Body, Ciliary Ciliary Bodies Corpus Ciliaris Ciliari, Corpus Ciliaris, Corpus Corpus Ciliari Corpus Ciliare Ciliare, Corpus Ciliares, Corpus Corpus Ciliares

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Anatomy [A]
Sense Organs [A09]
Eye [A09.371]
Anterior Eye Segment [A09.371.060]
Ciliary Body [A09.371.060.160]
Uvea [A09.371.894]
Ciliary Body [A09.371.894.280]

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Bar chart showing 83 publications over 28 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 1996

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1995	1	1	2
1996	6	1	7
1997	2	2	4
1998	2	0	2
1999	5	0	5
2000	3	0	3
2001	6	0	6
2002	3	0	3
2003	0	1	1
2004	1	0	1
2005	1	0	1
2006	3	1	4
2007	3	1	4
2008	1	2	3
2009	3	0	3
2010	1	0	1
2011	1	2	3
2013	4	2	6
2014	1	3	4
2015	3	1	4
2016	2	0	2
2017	2	0	2
2018	2	1	3
2019	0	2	2
2020	0	2	2
2021	2	0	2
2022	0	1	1
2023	1	1	2

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Dockery PW, DeSimone JD, Liu CK, Achuck K, Hamburger J, Bas Z, Shields CL. Effectiveness of treatment for iris melanoma: surgical versus radiotherapeutic approaches. Can J Ophthalmol. 2024 Oct; 59(5):329-334.

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Bas Z, Sajjadi Z, Shields CL. SARCOID GRANULOMA OF THE CHOROID AND CILIARY BODY IN 50 CASES. Retina. 2023 11 01; 43(11):1842-1851.

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Solomon DA, Ramani B, Eiger-Moscovich M, Milman T, Uludag G, Crawford JB, Phan I, Char DH, Shields CL, Eagle RC, Bastian BC, Bloomer MM, Pekmezci M. Iris and Ciliary Body Melanocytomas Are Defined by Solitary GNAQ Mutation Without Additional Oncogenic Alterations. Ophthalmology. 2022 12; 129(12):1429-1439.

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Shields JA, Dockery PW, Shields CL. Swiss Cheese-Appearing Cavitary Ciliochoroidal Melanoma. Ophthalmol Retina. 2021 06; 5(6):592.

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Hanbazazh M, Barrantes PC, DeVience E, Rana BA, Jadhav N, Gyure K, Grossniklaus HE, Thuro BA, Henneberry J, Milman T, Eagle RC, Shields CL, Shields JA, Dryja TP. Overlapping Immunohistochemical Features of Adenocarcinoma of the Nonpigmented Ciliary Body Epithelium and Renal Cell Carcinoma. Am J Ophthalmol. 2021 06; 226:191-200.

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Xu TT, Pulido JS, Deufel CL, Corbin KS, Petersen IA, Dalvin LA. Clinical outcomes of Modified Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study IRIS plaques for treatment of iris, iridociliary, and ciliary body melanoma. Eye (Lond). 2021 10; 35(10):2754-2762.

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Mudhar HS, Milman T, Eagle RC, Sanderson T, Pheasey L, Paine S, Salvi S, Rennie IG, Rundle P, Shields CL, Shields JA. Usefulness of PAX8 Immunohistochemistry in?Adult Intraocular Tumor Diagnosis. Ophthalmology. 2021 05; 128(5):765-778.

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Rizzo S, Barale PO, Ayello-Scheer S, Devenyi RG, Delyfer MN, Korobelnik JF, Rachitskaya A, Yuan A, Jayasundera KT, Zacks DN, Handa JT, Montezuma SR, Koozekanani D, Stanga P, da Cruz L, Walter P, Augustin AJ, Olmos de Koo LC, Ho AC, Kirchhof B, Hahn P, Vajzovic L, Iezzi R, Gaucher D, Arevalo JF, Gregori NZ, Wiedemann P, ?zmert E, Lim JI, Rezende FA, Huang SS, Merlini F, Patel U, Greenberg RJ, Justus S, Bacherini D, Cinelli L, Humayun MS. Hypotony and the Argus II retinal prosthesis: causes, prevention and management. Br J Ophthalmol. 2020 04; 104(4):518-523.

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Lin MM, Rageh A, Turalba AV, Lee H, Falkenstein IA, Hoguet AS, Ojha P, Rao VS, Ratanawongphaibul K, Rhee DJ, Shen LQ, Song BJ, Chen TC. Differential Efficacy of Combined Phacoemulsification and Endocyclophotocoagulation in Open-angle Glaucoma Versus Angle-closure Glaucoma. J Glaucoma. 2019 05; 28(5):473-480.

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Ang SM, Dalvin LA, Emrich J, Komarnicky L, Shields JA, Shields CL. Plaque Radiotherapy for Medulloepithelioma in 6 Cases From a Single Center. Asia Pac J Ophthalmol (Phila). 2019 Jan-Feb; 8(1):30-35.

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