"Splenectomy" 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.
Surgical procedure involving either partial or entire removal of the spleen.
| Descriptor ID |
D013156
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E04.726
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| Concept/Terms |
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Splenectomy".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Splenectomy".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Splenectomy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Splenectomy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1998 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2002 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2006 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2010 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2015 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2016 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2020 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Splenectomy" by people in Profiles.
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Splenic complications in pediatric sickle cell disease: A retrospective cohort review. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2024 Oct; 71(10):e31219.
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Case report: Fatal overwhelming post-splenectomy infection in a patient with metastatic angiosarcoma treated with immunotherapy. Front Immunol. 2024; 15:1366271.
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Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease Patients on Hydroxyurea Have Higher Rates of Surgical Splenectomy. J Surg Res. 2023 Mar; 283:798-805.
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TNF-alpha releasing capacity of the whole blood drops after open total splenectomy, but increases after partial/subtotal or minimally invasive splenectomy. Acta Chir Belg. 2022 Oct; 122(5):346-356.
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From the archives of MD Anderson Cancer Center: Untreated leukemic non-nodal mantle cell lymphoma with relapse as pleomorphic variant mantle cell lymphoma 21 years later. Ann Diagn Pathol. 2021 Feb; 50:151649.
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Risk Factors for Failure of Splenic Angioembolization: A Multicenter Study of Level I Trauma Centers. J Surg Res. 2021 01; 257:227-231.
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National trends in bowel and upper abdominal procedures in ovarian cancer surgery. Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2020 08; 30(8):1195-1202.
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Local and systemic immunosuppression in pancreatic cancer: Targeting the stalwarts in tumor's arsenal. Biochim Biophys Acta Rev Cancer. 2020 08; 1874(1):188387.
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Combining Appleby with RAMPS - Laparoscopic Radical Antegrade Modular Pancreatosplenectomy with Celiac Trunk Resection. J Gastrointest Surg. 2020 11; 24(11):2700-2701.
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The pharmacological management of hairy cell leukemia. Expert Opin Pharmacother. 2020 Aug; 21(11):1337-1344.