Mastectomy, Segmental

"Mastectomy, Segmental" 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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Removal of only enough breast tissue to ensure that the margins of the resected surgical specimen are free of tumor.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Mastectomy, Segmental" by people in this website by year, and whether "Mastectomy, Segmental" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 352 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 21 publications in 2013 and 2015 and 2021
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