| Qualifier English: | surgery | ||||
| Qualifier Spanish: | cirugía 
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| Qualifier Portuguese: | cirurgia | ||||
| Qualifier French: | chirurgie | ||||
| Entry term(s): | intraoperative procedures invasive procedures operations operative procedures operative therapy perioperative procedures peroperative procedures preoperative procedures | ||||
| RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/Q000601 | ||||
| Scope note: | Used for operative procedures on organs, regions, or tissues in the treatment of diseases, including tissue section by lasers. It excludes transplantation, for which "transplantation" is used. | ||||
| Annotation: | subhead only; includes "operation", "surgical therapy"; for tissue section or coagulation by laser; not for transplantation ( = /transplantation); indexing policy: Manual 19.8.70; DF: /surg or /SU | ||||
| Allowable Qualifiers: | No qualifiers | ||||
| Online Note: | search policy: Online Manual; use: main heading/SU or SU (SH) or SUBS APPLY SU | ||||
| History Note: | 66; used with Category A, C & F 1966-74; A, C & F3 1975; A, B2, C & F3 1976-89; A1-10, A13-14, A16, B2, C & F3 1990 forward | ||||
| Entry Version: | SURG | ||||
| Abbreviation: | SU | ||||
| DeCS ID: | 22009 | ||||
| Unique ID: | Q000601 | ||||
| Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||
| Date Established: | 1966/01/01 | ||||
| Date of Entry: | 1973/12/27 | ||||
| Revision Date: | 2003/07/24 | 
                        
                                                                    
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                | Concept UI | M0030796 | 
| Scope note | Used for operative procedures on organs, regions, or tissues in the treatment of diseases, including tissue section by lasers. It excludes transplantation, for which "transplantation" is used. | 
| Preferred term | surgery | 
| Entry term(s) | invasive procedures operations operative procedures operative therapy | 
| Concept UI | M0030800 | 
| Preferred term | peroperative procedures | 
| Concept UI | M0030799 | 
| Preferred term | perioperative procedures | 
| Concept UI | M0030797 | 
| Preferred term | preoperative procedures | 
| Concept UI | M0030798 | 
| Preferred term | intraoperative procedures | 
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