Surgical Instruments

"Surgical Instruments" 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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Hand-held tools or implements used by health professionals for the performance of surgical tasks.

Descriptor ID	D013525
MeSH Number(s)	E07.858.700
Concept/Terms	Surgical Instruments Surgical Instruments Instrument, Surgical Instruments, Surgical Surgical Instrument Forceps Forceps Forcep Speculum Speculum Speculums Surgical Clamps Surgical Clamps Clamps, Surgical Clamp, Surgical Surgical Clamp Surgical Clips Surgical Clips Clips, Surgical Clip, Surgical Surgical Clip Clips Clips Clip Surgical Plugs Surgical Plugs Plugs, Surgical Plug, Surgical Surgical Plug Surgical Scissors Surgical Scissors Scissors, Surgical Trocar Trocar Trocars Valves, Surgical Valves, Surgical Surgical Valves Surgical Valve Valve, Surgical Clips, Tantalum Clips, Tantalum Clip, Tantalum Tantalum Clip Tantalum Clips Surgical Hooks Surgical Hooks Hooks, Surgical Hook, Surgical Surgical Hook

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Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Equipment and Supplies [E07]
Surgical Equipment [E07.858]
Surgical Instruments [E07.858.700]

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Bar chart showing 35 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2005 and 2009 and 2010 and 2011 and 2012

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1998	0	1	1
1999	0	1	1
2000	0	1	1
2001	1	0	1
2002	1	0	1
2003	1	0	1
2005	2	1	3
2006	1	0	1
2007	0	1	1
2008	0	2	2
2009	1	2	3
2010	1	2	3
2011	1	2	3
2012	2	1	3
2014	1	0	1
2015	0	2	2
2017	1	1	2
2020	1	1	2
2022	0	1	1
2023	0	1	1
2024	0	1	1

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Switalla KM, Boughey JC, Dimitroff K, Yau C, Ladores V, Yu H, Tchou J, Golshan M, Ahrendt G, Postlewait LM, Piltin M, Reyna CR, Matsen CB, Tuttle TM, Wallace AM, Arciero CA, Lee MC, Tseng J, Son J, Rao R, Sauder C, Naik A, Howard-McNatt M, Lancaster R, Norwood P, Esserman LJ, Mukhtar RA. Clipping the Positive Lymph Node in Patients with Clinically Node Positive Breast Cancer Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Impact on Axillary Surgery in the ISPY-2 Clinical Trial. Ann Surg Oncol. 2024 Oct; 31(11):7249-7259.

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Lee JJ, Oladeji K, Finlay AK, Manasherob R, Amanatullah DF. Detecting contamination events during robotic total joint arthroplasty. Am J Infect Control. 2024 Sep; 52(9):1025-1029.

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Dorante MI, Barron SL, Jones L, Freniere BB, Guo L. Utilization Fraction of Reduction Mammoplasty Instrument Sets: Cost Savings and Efficiency Opportunities. Ann Plast Surg. 2023 05 01; 90(5S Suppl 2):S130-S134.

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Weiss A, King C, Grossmith S, Portnow L, Raza S, Nakhlis F, Dominici L, Barbie T, Minami C, Nimbkar S, Rhei E, Mittendorf EA, King TA. How Often Does Retrieval of a Clipped Lymph Node Change Adjuvant Therapy Recommendations? A Prospective, Consecutive, Patient Cohort Study. Ann Surg Oncol. 2022 Jun; 29(6):3764-3771.

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Taylor BES, Say I, Patel P, Tomycz LD. Microsurgical Clip Ligation of an Unruptured Azygos Bifurcation Aneurysm Indented by the Falx Cerebri: 3-Dimensional Operative Video. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2020 Sep 01; 19(3):E294.

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Mahabir CA, DeFilippis EM, Aggarwal S, Bath A, Qamar A, Patel NK, Goldsweig AM, Vaduganathan M. The First 4 Years of Postmarketing Safety Surveillance Related to the MitraClip Device: A United States Food and Drug Administration MAUDE Experience. J Invasive Cardiol. 2020 05; 32(5):E130-E132.

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Docimo S, Al-Mansour M, Tsuda S. SAGES TAVAC safety and efficacy analysis WATS3D (CDx Diagnostics, Suffern, NY). Surg Endosc. 2020 09; 34(9):3743-3747.

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Amenta PS, Nerva JD, Dumont AS. Editorial. Contemporary treatment of ruptured intracranial aneurysms: perspectives from the Barrow Ruptured Aneurysm Trial. J Neurosurg. 2020 02 01; 132(2):765-767.

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Riina MD, Rashad R, Cohen S, Brownlee Z, Sioshansi S, Hepel J, Chatterjee A, Huber KE. The Effectiveness of Intraoperative Clip Placement in Improving Radiation Therapy Boost Targeting After Oncoplastic Surgery. Pract Radiat Oncol. 2020 Sep - Oct; 10(5):e348-e356.

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Loberman D, Mohr R, Pirundini PA, Yazdchi F, Rinewalt D, Ziv-Baran T. Automated fastener (Core-Knot) versus manually tied knots in patients undergoing aortic valve replacement: Impact on cross-clamp time and short-term echocardiographic results. Medicine (Baltimore). 2018 Aug; 97(31):e11657.

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