General Surgery

"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.

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A specialty in which manual or operative procedures are used in the treatment of disease, injuries, or deformities.

Descriptor ID	D013502
MeSH Number(s)	H02.403.810.300
Concept/Terms	General Surgery General Surgery Surgery, General Surgery

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Natural Sciences [H]
Health Occupations [H02]
Medicine [H02.403]
Specialties, Surgical [H02.403.810]
General Surgery [H02.403.810.300]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "General Surgery" by people in this website by year, and whether "General Surgery" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 24 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2015

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1998	1	0	1
1999	1	0	1
2004	1	0	1
2005	2	0	2
2006	1	0	1
2007	0	1	1
2008	1	0	1
2009	1	0	1
2010	0	1	1
2011	1	1	2
2012	1	0	1
2014	1	0	1
2015	3	0	3
2016	1	0	1
2017	1	0	1
2018	1	0	1
2022	1	0	1
2023	0	1	1
2024	1	1	2

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Benavente RV, Biala EB, Lopez BA, Gimmen MY, Pineda ET, Narvaez JRF, Woo RK, Palafox NA, Buenconsejo-Lum LE. Assessing Surgical Capacity in Guam: Current Strengths and Future Goals. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2026 Mar 11; 23(3).

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Bowers CP, Lin AM, Fullum TM, Cornwell EE, Ford DH, Rose DA, Tran D, Dixon AH, Nembhard CE, Tee MC. Educational Outcomes and Impact of Historically Black Colleges and Universities on the Pipeline of Minority Surgeons. J Surg Res. 2026 01; 317:154-160.

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Snyder EM, Abella MK, Yoon IJ, Lee AY, Singh SA, Harvey CJ, Puapong DP, Woo RK. Effect of physician specialty training on pediatric appendectomy outcomes: an NSQIP-P analysis. Pediatr Surg Int. 2024 Nov 10; 40(1):302.

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Smink DS, Ortega G, Dacier BM, Petrusa ER, Chen YJ, Shaikh NQ, Allar BG, Chun MBJ, Green AR, Caldwell KE, Atkinson RB, Reidy E, Olufajo OA, Britt LD, Brittain MA, Z?rate Rodriguez J, Swoboda SM, Cornwell EE, Lynch KA, Wise PE, Harrington DT, Kent TS, Mullen JT, Lipsett PA, Haider AH. A Randomized Crossover Trial Evaluating the Impact of Cultural Dexterity Training on Surgical Residents' Knowledge, Cross-Cultural Care, Skills, and Beliefs: The Provider Awareness and Cultural Dexterity Training for Surgeons (PACTS) Trial. Ann Surg. 2024 Sep 01; 280(3):403-413.

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Abella MKIL, Lee AY, Agonias K, Maka P, Ahn HJ, Woo RK. Racial Disparities in General Surgery Outcomes. J Surg Res. 2023 08; 288:261-268.

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Camacho M, Chun MBJ, Xia H, Ahn HJ, Miyasato H, Murayama KM. Implementation of a Business of Healthcare Curriculum for General Surgery Residents. J Surg Educ. 2023 04; 80(4):613-618.

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Shah AA, Zogg CK, Rehman A, Latif A, Zafar H, Shakoor A, Wasif N, Chapital AB, Riviello R, Ashfaq A, Williams M, Cornwell EE, Haider AH. Disparate outcomes of global emergency surgery - A matched comparison of patients in developed and under-developed healthcare settings. Am J Surg. 2018 06; 215(6):1029-1036.

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Cornwell EE. LaSalle D. Leffall Jr., M.D. The Man and the Mission. Am J Surg. 2018 06; 215(6):1051-1054.

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Shah AA, Zafar SN, Kodadek LM, Zogg CK, Chapital AB, Iqbal A, Greene WR, Cornwell EE, Havens J, Nitzschke S, Cooper Z, Salim A, Haider AH. Never giving up: outcomes and presentation of emergency general surgery in geriatric octogenarian and nonagenarian patients. Am J Surg. 2016 Aug; 212(2):211-220.e3.

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Woo RK, Skarsgard ED. Innovating for quality and value: Utilizing national quality improvement programs to identify opportunities for responsible surgical innovation. Semin Pediatr Surg. 2015 Jun; 24(3):138-40.

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