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  2. Temporal styloid process - Wikipedia

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    The temporal styloid process is a slender bony process of the temporal bone extending downward and forward from the undersurface of the temporal bone [1] just below the ear. [citation needed] The styloid process gives attachments to several muscles, and ligaments.

  3. ICD-9-CM Volume 3 - Wikipedia

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    Incision and excision of skull, brain, and cerebral meninges Cranial puncture() Cisternal punctur() Ventriculopuncture through previously implanted cathete() Other cranial punctur

  4. Accessory bone - Wikipedia

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    Accessory bones of the ankle. [13]Accessory bones at the ankle mainly include: Os subtibiale, with a prevalence of approximately 1%. [14] It is a secondary ossification center of the distal tibia that appears during the first year of life, and which in most people fuses with the shaft at approximately 15 years in females and approximately 17 years in males.

  5. Computer-assisted surgery - Wikipedia

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    Using the surgical navigation system the surgeon uses special instruments, which are tracked by the navigation system. The position of a tracked instrument in relation to the patient's anatomy is shown on images of the patient, as the surgeon moves the instrument. The surgeon thus uses the system to 'navigate' the location of an instrument.

  6. ICD-10 Procedure Coding System - Wikipedia

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    The ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) is a US system of medical classification used for procedural coding.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency responsible for maintaining the inpatient procedure code set in the U.S., contracted with 3M Health Information Systems in 1995 to design and then develop a procedure classification system to replace Volume 3 of ICD-9-CM.

  7. Evidence of surgical tumor removal in ancient Egyptian skull ...

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    Archaeologists regard the skull, labeled 236 in the collection, as one of the oldest examples of malignancy in the ancient world, dating back to between 2686 BC and 2345 BC.

  8. External fixation - Wikipedia

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    External fixation is a surgical treatment wherein Kirschner pins and wires are inserted and affixed into bone and then exit the body to be attached to an external apparatus composed of rings and threaded rods — the Ilizarov apparatus, the Taylor Spatial Frame, and the Octopod External Fixator — which immobilises the damaged limb to facilitate healing. [1]

  9. A skull, a tibia and a family that wants closure. Are Fresno ...

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    “I’m tired of feeling how they denigrate us! I feel cheated by the authorities, full of anger and helplessness.”