"Inguinal Canal" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The tunnel in the lower anterior ABDOMINAL WALL through which the SPERMATIC CORD, in the male; ROUND LIGAMENT, in the female; nerves; and vessels pass. Its internal end is at the deep inguinal ring and its external end is at the superficial inguinal ring.
| Descriptor ID |
D007264
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A01.923.047.412
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| Concept/Terms |
Inguinal Canal- Inguinal Canal
- Canal, Inguinal
- Canals, Inguinal
- Inguinal Canals
Inguinal Ring- Inguinal Ring
- Inguinal Rings
- Ring, Inguinal
- Rings, Inguinal
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| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Inguinal Canal" by people in Profiles.
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Elective clinical target volumes for conformal therapy in anorectal cancer: a radiation therapy oncology group consensus panel contouring atlas. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2009 Jul 01; 74(3):824-30.
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Usefulness of autogenous bypass grafts originating distal to the groin. J Vasc Surg. 2002 Jan; 35(1):48-54; discussion, 54-5.
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Squamous cell carcinoma arising in an unhealed wound in Crohn's disease. South Med J. 1997 Sep; 90(9):940-2.