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Surgical Mesh

"Surgical Mesh" 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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Any woven or knit material of open texture used in surgery for the repair, reconstruction, or substitution of tissue. The mesh is usually a synthetic fabric made of various polymers. It is occasionally made of metal.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Surgical Mesh" by people in this website by year, and whether "Surgical Mesh" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 44 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2021
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