 Cranial Fossa, Posterior
"Cranial Fossa, Posterior" 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 infratentorial compartment that contains the CEREBELLUM and BRAIN STEM. It is formed by the posterior third of the superior surface of the body of the sphenoid (SPHENOID BONE), by the occipital, the petrous, and mastoid portions of the TEMPORAL BONE, and the posterior inferior angle of the PARIETAL BONE.
| Descriptor ID |
D003388
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
A01.456.830.200 A02.835.232.781.750.400
|
| Concept/Terms |
Cranial Fossa, Posterior- Cranial Fossa, Posterior
- Cranial Fossas, Posterior
- Fossa, Posterior Cranial
- Fossas, Posterior Cranial
- Posterior Cranial Fossa
- Posterior Cranial Fossas
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Cranial Fossa, Posterior".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Cranial Fossa, Posterior".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cranial Fossa, Posterior" by people in this website by year, and whether "Cranial Fossa, Posterior" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2026 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
To return to the timeline, click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Cranial Fossa, Posterior" by people in Profiles.
-
Limbrick DD, Shannon CN, Bayman EO, Meehan T, Kallem M, Ackerman LL, Adelson PD, Ahmed R, Albert G, Aldana PR, Alden TD, Anderson RCE, Baird LC, Bauer D, Bethel-Anderson T, Bierbrauer K, Brockmeyer DL, Chern JJ, Couture DE, Daniels DJ, Dauser RC, Dlouhy BJ, Durham SR, Ellenbogen RG, Eskandari R, Gannon SR, Grant GA, Graupman PC, Greenberg JK, Greene S, Greenfield JP, Gross NL, Guillaume DJ, Hankinson TC, Heuer G, Iantosca M, Iskandar BJ, Jackson EM, Jallo GI, Johnston JM, Keating RF, Kelly MP, Kennedy E, Krieger MD, Kulkarni AV, Labuda R, Leonard JR, Maher CO, Mangano FT, McComb JG, McEvoy SD, McKinstry RC, Menezes AH, Niazi TN, Oakes J, Olavarria G, O'Neill BR, Poppe D, Ragheb J, Reeves S, Reynolds L, Selden NR, Shah MN, Shimony JS, Smyth MD, Spears S, Stone SSD, Strahle JM, Tamber M, Tramelli G, Tuite GF, Tyler-Kabara EC, Vance H, Wait SD, Wellons JC, Whitehead WE, Yahanda AT, Yan Y, Dacey RG, Park TS, Torner JC. Decompression with or without Duraplasty for Chiari I and Syringomyelia. N Engl J Med. 2026 May 28; 394(20):2015-2025.
-
Smalling S, Roberts J, Hendrick K, Gray M, Wyrwa JM. Vestibular Testing and Impairments in Postoperative Pediatric Cerebellar Mutism Syndrome: A Case Series. Pediatr Neurol. 2024 May; 154:15-19.
-
Whitehead MT, Barkovich MJ, Sidpra J, Alves CA, Mirsky DM, Öztekin Ö, Bhattacharya D, Lucato LT, Sudhakar S, Taranath A, Andronikou S, Prabhu SP, Aldinger KA, Haldipur P, Millen KJ, Barkovich AJ, Boltshauser E, Dobyns WB, Mankad K. Refining the Neuroimaging Definition of the Dandy-Walker Phenotype. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2022 10; 43(10):1488-1493.
-
Labib MA, Zhao X, Houlihan LM, Abramov I, Inoue M, Martinez-Perez R, Catapano JS, Lawton MT, Preul MC, Youssef AS. A two-stage combined anterolateral and endoscopic endonasal approach to the petroclival region: an anatomical study and clinical application. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2022 07; 164(7):1899-1910.
-
Hengartner AC, Putty M, Young M, Maloney JA, Mirsky DM, Hankinson TC. "Growing cerebellum" requiring operative decompression following perinatal ventriculoperitoneal shunting. Childs Nerv Syst. 2021 01; 37(1):13-19.
-
Mahtabfar A, Mazza J, Franco D, Gonzalez GA, Hines K, Chalouhi N, Jabbour P, Harrop J, Heller J. Cranial Settling Causing Intracranial Hemorrhage Through Violation of the Skull Base by Cervical Spine Instrumentation. World Neurosurg. 2021 01; 145:178-182.
-
Zou Y, Neale N, Sun J, Yang M, Bai HX, Tang L, Zhang Z, Landi A, Wang Y, Huang RY, Zhang PJ, Li X, Xiao B, Yang L. Prognostic Factors in Clival Chordomas: An Integrated Analysis of 347 Patients. World Neurosurg. 2018 Oct; 118:e375-e387.
-
Freeman JL, Sampath R, Quattlebaum SC, Casey MA, Folzenlogen ZA, Ramakrishnan VR, Youssef AS. Expanding the endoscopic transpterygoid corridor to the petroclival region: anatomical study and volumetric comparative analysis. J Neurosurg. 2018 06; 128(6):1855-1864.
-
Winston KR, Stence NV, Boylan AJ, Beauchamp KM. Upward Translation of Cerebellar Tonsils following Surgical Expansion of Supratentorial Cranial Vault: A Unified Biomechanical Explanation of Chiari Type I. Pediatr Neurosurg. 2015; 50(5):243-9.
-
Mudd PA, Hohensee S, Lillehei KO, Kingdom TT, Kleinschmidt-Demasters BK. Ectopic pituitary adenoma of the clivus presenting with apoplexy: case report and review of the literature. Clin Neuropathol. 2012 Jan-Feb; 31(1):24-30.
|
People  People who have written about this concept. _
Similar Concepts
People who have written about this concept.
_
Top Journals
Top journals in which articles about this concept have been published.
|