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Descriptor English: Decompression, Surgical
Descriptor Spanish: Descompresión Quirúrgica
Descriptor descompresión quirúrgica
Scope note: Intervención quirúrgica para aliviar la presión de un compartimento corporal o de una parte del cuerpo. (Dorland, 28a ed)
Descriptor Portuguese: Descompressão Cirúrgica
Descriptor French: Décompression chirurgicale
Entry term(s): Decompressions, Surgical
Surgical Decompression
Surgical Decompressions
Tree number(s): E04.188
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019299
Scope note: A surgical operation for the relief of pressure in a body compartment or on a body part. (From Dorland, 28th ed)
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MO mortality
MT methods
NU nursing
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
Previous Indexing: specific disease/surgery (1966-1996)
Public MeSH Note: 97
History Note: 97
Entry Version: DECOMPRESSION SURG
DeCS ID: 33112
Unique ID: D019299
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Date Established: 1997/01/01
Date of Entry: 1996/06/10
Decompression, Surgical - Preferred
Concept UI M0028731
Scope note A surgical operation for the relief of pressure in a body compartment or on a body part. (From Dorland, 28th ed)
Preferred term Decompression, Surgical
Entry term(s) Decompressions, Surgical
Surgical Decompression
Surgical Decompressions



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