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Postoperative Complications

"Postoperative Complications" 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.

Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Postoperative Complications" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Postoperative Complications" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 8271 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 586 publications in 2019
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.