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Surgical Stomas

"Surgical Stomas" 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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Artificial openings created by a surgeon for therapeutic reasons. Most often this refers to openings from the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT through the ABDOMINAL WALL to the outside of the body. It can also refer to the two ends of a surgical anastomosis.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Surgical Stomas" by people in this website by year, and whether "Surgical Stomas" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 11 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2012 and 2015
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