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Surgical Stapling

"Surgical Stapling" 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 technique of closing incisions and wounds, or of joining and connecting tissues, in which staples are used as sutures.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Surgical Stapling" by people in this website by year, and whether "Surgical Stapling" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 12 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2002 and 2004 and 2010
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