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Descriptor English: General Surgery
Descriptor Spanish: Cirugía General
Descriptor cirugía general
Entry term(s) cirugía
Scope note: Especialidad en la que se emplean procedimientos manuales o quirúrgicos en el tratamiento de enfermedades, lesiones o deformidades.
Descriptor Portuguese: Cirurgia Geral
Descriptor French: Chirurgie générale
Entry term(s): Surgery
Surgery, General
Tree number(s): H02.403.810.300
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013502
Scope note: A specialty in which manual or operative procedures are used in the treatment of disease, injuries, or deformities.
Annotation: use for the specialty only; prefer /surg with organs and diseases; use SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE or specifics for the surgery patient or surgical procedures
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 2009; see SURGERY 1974-2008
History Note: 2009 (1974)
Related: Barber Surgeons MeSH
Surgical Procedures, Operative MeSH
DeCS ID: 13883
Unique ID: D013502
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2015/06/23
General Surgery - Preferred
Concept UI M0020860
Scope note A specialty in which manual or operative procedures are used in the treatment of disease, injuries, or deformities.
Preferred term General Surgery
Entry term(s) Surgery
Surgery, General



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