"General Surgery" 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.
A specialty in which manual or operative procedures are used in the treatment of disease, injuries, or deformities.
| Descriptor ID |
D013502
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| MeSH Number(s) |
H02.403.810.300
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "General Surgery" by people in Profiles.
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Prevalence of alcohol misuse among men and women undergoing major noncardiac surgery in the Veterans Affairs health care system. Surgery. 2012 Jul; 152(1):69-81.
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Features associated with successful recruitment of diverse patients onto cancer clinical trials: report from the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group. Ann Surg Oncol. 2011 Dec; 18(13):3544-50.
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Skin cancer diagnosis in a primary care setting. J Am Acad Dermatol. 1996 Apr; 34(4):608-11.
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Racial and community factors influencing coronary artery bypass graft surgery rates for all 1986 Medicare patients. JAMA. 1992 Mar 18; 267(11):1473-7.
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Similarities in the personalities of women and men who were first-year medical students planning careers as surgeons. Acad Med. 1991 Sep; 66(9):560.