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Preoperative Period

"Preoperative Period" 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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The period before a surgical operation.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Preoperative Period" by people in this website by year, and whether "Preoperative Period" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 64 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 12 publications in 2012
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