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Health Occupations > Medicine > Specialties, Surgical > Thoracic Surgery

Preferred term

Thoracic Surgery  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Related concepts

Entry terms

  • Surgery, Thoracic

Note

  • a surgical specialty: do not confuse with THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES

Scope note

  • A surgical specialty concerned with diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the heart, lungs, and esophagus. Two major types of thoracic surgery are classified as pulmonary and cardiovascular.

History note

  • 80; was THORAX /surgery 1966-79 & SURGERY, THORACIC (NON MESH) before 1980

In other languages

  • rintaelinkirurgia

    Finnish

  • rintakehäkirurgia
  • rintakehän kirurgia
  • sydän- ja rintaelinkirurgia
  • thorax-kirurgia
  • thoraxkirurgia
  • Toraxkirurgi

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013903

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