"Thoracotomy" 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 incision into the chest wall.
| Descriptor ID |
D013908
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E04.928.760
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| Concept/Terms |
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Thoracotomy".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Thoracotomy".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Thoracotomy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Thoracotomy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1991 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1992 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1993 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 1994 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 1995 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1996 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1997 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 1998 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 1999 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2000 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2001 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2006 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2007 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2008 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2009 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2010 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2011 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2012 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2013 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2016 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2017 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2019 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Thoracotomy" by people in Profiles.
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Burt BM, Lee HS, Raghuram AC, Strange C, Mason J, Strange T, Delgado J, Sugarbaker DJ. Preoperative prediction of unresectability in malignant pleural mesothelioma. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 06; 159(6):2512-2520.e1.
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Fitch JL, Dieffenbaugher S, McNutt M, Miller CC, Wainwright DJ, Villarreal JA, Wilson CT, Todd SR. Are We Out of the Woods Yet? The Aftermath of Resuscitative Thoracotomy. J Surg Res. 2020 01; 245:593-599.
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Hofstetter WL. Open versus hybrid minimally invasive esophagectomy: Join the crowd, but do not throw away your abdominal retractors just yet. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2019 11; 158(5):1475-1478.
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Binsalamah ZM, Ibarra C, John R, Zea-Vera R, Adachi I, Imamura M, McKenzie ED, Fraser CD, Mery CM, Heinle JS. Contemporary Midterm Outcomes in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Vascular Ring Repair. Ann Thorac Surg. 2020 02; 109(2):566-572.
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Patel NV, Glover C, Adler AC. Erector Spinae Plane Catheter for Postoperative Analgesia After Thoracotomy in a Pediatric Patient: A Case Report. A A Pract. 2019 May 01; 12(9):299-301.
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Gray L, Alnajar A, Lamelas J. A Synthetic CardioCel Tube for Minimally Invasive Superior Vena Cava Bypass. Ann Thorac Surg. 2019 11; 108(5):e283-e285.
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Dickson R. In Reply to Passquire et al. J Emerg Med. 2019 04; 56(4):458.
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Jimenez E, Wu D, Omer S, Cornwell L, Nunez P, Rosengart TK, Coselli JS. Mitral Valve Repair Rate at a Veterans Affairs Hospital Utilizing a Multidisciplinary Heart Team. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2019; 31(3):434-441.
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Rosenfeld EH, Lau P, Shah SR, Naik-Mathuria B, Wesson DE, Wakeman DS, Vogel AM. Sternal fractures in children: An analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank. J Pediatr Surg. 2019 May; 54(5):980-983.
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Adler AC, Yim MM, Chandrakantan A. Erector spinae plane catheter for neonatal thoracotomy: a potentially safer alternative to a thoracic epidural. Can J Anaesth. 2019 05; 66(5):607-608.