"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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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 1998 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2009 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2010 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2015 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2019 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Thoracotomy" by people in Profiles.
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Relationship of Surgical Approach With Financial Toxicity in Patients With Resected Lung Cancer. J Surg Oncol. 2025 Feb; 131(2):303-309.
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Muscle-sparing Vertical Thoracotomy in Children and Adolescents. J Pediatr Surg. 2024 Oct; 59(10):161576.
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Evaluation and Management of Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Systematic Review From the APSA Outcomes & Evidence-Based Practice Committee. J Pediatr Surg. 2023 Oct; 58(10):1873-1885.
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Emergency department thoracotomy in children: A Pediatric Trauma Society, Western Trauma Association, and Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma systematic review and practice management guideline. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2023 09 01; 95(3):432-441.
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Invited Commentary: Comparing Single vs Double Chest Tube Placement after Decortication for Stage III Empyema. J Am Coll Surg. 2023 06 01; 236(6):1231-1232.
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Evaluating emergency department tube thoracostomy: A single-center use of trauma video review to assess efficiency and technique. Surgery. 2023 04; 173(4):1086-1092.
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Off-pump Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation Through Median Sternotomy Versus Sternal Sparing Approach. ASAIO J. 2023 06 01; 69(6):e265-e266.
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Trauma video review outperforms prospective real-time data collection for study of resuscitative thoracotomy. Surgery. 2022 11; 172(5):1563-1568.
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Pulmonary completion lobectomy after segmentectomy: An integrated analysis of perioperative outcomes. Thorac Cancer. 2022 08; 13(16):2331-2339.
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Establishment of Minimal Clinically Important Improvement for Patient-Reported Symptoms to Define Recovery After Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery. Ann Surg Oncol. 2022 Sep; 29(9):5593-5604.