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.
| Descriptor ID |
D011183
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.550.767
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| Concept/Terms |
Postoperative Complications- Postoperative Complications
- Complication, Postoperative
- Complications, Postoperative
- Postoperative Complication
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1998 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 1999 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 13 | 15 | 28 |
| 2003 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| 2004 | 7 | 11 | 18 |
| 2005 | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| 2006 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2007 | 6 | 7 | 13 |
| 2008 | 5 | 13 | 18 |
| 2009 | 2 | 11 | 13 |
| 2010 | 8 | 12 | 20 |
| 2011 | 11 | 13 | 24 |
| 2012 | 14 | 21 | 35 |
| 2013 | 20 | 18 | 38 |
| 2014 | 15 | 9 | 24 |
| 2015 | 23 | 19 | 42 |
| 2016 | 28 | 17 | 45 |
| 2017 | 24 | 21 | 45 |
| 2018 | 17 | 19 | 36 |
| 2019 | 19 | 11 | 30 |
| 2020 | 11 | 9 | 20 |
| 2021 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2022 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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