"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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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.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 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 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "General Surgery" by people in Profiles.
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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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Hall EC, Hashmi ZG, Zafar SN, Zogg CK, Cornwell EE, Haider AH. Racial/ethnic disparities in emergency general surgery: explained by hospital-level characteristics? Am J Surg. 2015 Apr; 209(4):604-9.
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Zafar SN, Shah AA, Hashmi ZG, Efron DT, Haut ER, Schneider EB, Schwartz D, Velopulos CG, Cornwell EE, Haider AH. Outcomes after emergency general surgery at teaching versus nonteaching hospitals. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015 Jan; 78(1):69-76; discussion 76-7.
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Stewart JH, Kwayisi G, Cornwell EE. Asa G Yancey: a quiet giant in American surgery. J Am Coll Surg. 2014 Oct; 219(4):842-5.
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Steinemann SK, Berg BW, Turban JW, Hara KM, Alfrey LR. Student-written simulation scenarios: a novel cognitive assessment method in a trauma curriculum. Hawaii Med J. 2011 Aug; 70(8):172-5.