 Thoracic Surgery
"Thoracic Surgery" 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.
A surgical specialty concerned with diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the heart, lungs, and esophagus. Two major types of thoracic surgery are classified as pulmonary and cardiovascular.
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D013903
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| MeSH Number(s) |
H02.403.810.803
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Thoracic Surgery" by people in this website by year, and whether "Thoracic Surgery" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2000 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2011 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2013 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2015 | 8 | 0 | 8 | | 2016 | 10 | 1 | 11 | | 2017 | 7 | 1 | 8 | | 2018 | 3 | 5 | 8 | | 2019 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2020 | 6 | 1 | 7 | | 2021 | 9 | 0 | 9 | | 2022 | 6 | 0 | 6 | | 2023 | 5 | 0 | 5 | | 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Thoracic Surgery" by people in Profiles.
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Stuart CM, Mott NM, Mungo AH, Meguid RA, Mitchell JD, Randhawa SK, Rove JY, David EA. Representation of women among cardiothoracic surgery editorial boards: Trends over the past 2 decades. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2025 Mar; 169(3):691-698.e6.
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Towe CW, Servais EL, Brown LM, Blasberg JD, Mitchell JD, Worrell SG, Seder CW, David EA. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database: 2023 Update on Outcomes and Research. Ann Thorac Surg. 2024 03; 117(3):489-496.
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Perdomo D, Pebworth R, Lawton JS, Kilic A, Reddy RM, David EA, Odell DD, Yang SC. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Looking to the Future Scholarship Program: A 15-Year Review. Ann Thorac Surg. 2024 04; 117(4):866-872.
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Dyas AR, Bronsert MR, Henderson WG, Stuart CM, Pradhan N, Colborn KL, Cleveland JC, Meguid RA. A comparison of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program and the Society of Thoracic Surgery Cardiac Surgery preoperative risk models: a cohort study. Int J Surg. 2023 Aug 01; 109(8):2334-2343.
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Dyas AR, Thomas MB, Bronsert MR, Madsen HJ, Colborn KL, Henderson WG, David EA, Velopulos CG, Meguid RA. Emergency thoracic surgery patients have worse risk-adjusted outcomes than non-emergency patients. Surgery. 2023 10; 174(4):956-963.
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Kidane B, Bott M, Spicer J, Backhus L, Chaft J, Chudgar N, Colson Y, D'Amico TA, David E, Lee J, Najmeh S, Sepesi B, Shu C, Yang J, Swanson S, Stiles B. The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) 2023 Expert Consensus Document: Staging and multidisciplinary management of patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2023 09; 166(3):637-654.
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Servais EL, Blasberg JD, Brown LM, Towe CW, Seder CW, Onaitis MW, Block MI, David EA. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database: 2022 Update on Outcomes and Research. Ann Thorac Surg. 2023 01; 115(1):43-49.
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Strobel RJ, Savage CY, Horvath KA, Nichols FC, Savage EB, Kasirajan V, Cleveland JC, Mayer JE, Lahey SJ. The Endangered State of Medicare Reimbursement for Cardiothoracic Surgery:?A Call to Action. Ann Thorac Surg. 2022 11; 114(5):1542-1549.
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Lin Y, Vervoort D, Thapa B, Sapkota R, Mitchell JD. Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery for Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Thorac Surg Clin. 2022 Aug; 32(3):405-412.
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Dyas AR, Stuart CM, Wojcik BM, R Bronsert M, Scott CD, Meguid RA. Evaluating the implementation of robotic thoracic surgery on a Veterans Administration Hospital. J Robot Surg. 2023 Apr; 17(2):365-374.
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