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Postoperative Complications

"Postoperative Complications" 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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Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Postoperative Complications" by people in this website by year, and whether "Postoperative Complications" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 1615 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 100 publications in 2015
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