 Endoscopy
"Endoscopy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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Procedures of applying ENDOSCOPES for disease diagnosis and treatment. Endoscopy involves passing an optical instrument through a small incision in the skin i.e., percutaneous; or through a natural orifice and along natural body pathways such as the digestive tract; and/or through an incision in the wall of a tubular structure or organ, i.e. transluminal, to examine or perform surgery on the interior parts of the body.
| Descriptor ID |
D004724
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.388.250 E04.502.250
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| Concept/Terms |
Surgical Procedures, Endoscopic- Surgical Procedures, Endoscopic
- Procedure, Endoscopic Surgical
- Procedures, Endoscopic Surgical
- Surgical Procedure, Endoscopic
- Endoscopy, Surgical
- Surgical Endoscopy
- Endoscopic Surgical Procedure
- Endoscopic Surgical Procedures
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Endoscopy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Endoscopy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Endoscopy" by people in Profiles.
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Sonmez AE, Webb AG, Spees WM, Ozcan A, Tsekos NV. A system for endoscopic mechanically scanned localized proton MR and light-induced fluorescence emission spectroscopies. J Magn Reson. 2012 Sep; 222:16-25.
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Murray MJ. Endoscopy in sharks. Vet Clin North Am Exot Anim Pract. 2010 May; 13(2):301-13.
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Murray MJ, Hepburn RJ, Sullins KE. Preliminary study of use of a polypectomy snare to obtain large samples of the equine gastric antrum by endoscopy. Equine Vet J. 2004 Jan; 36(1):76-8.
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Potter SR, Chow GK, Jarrett TW. Percutaneous endoscopic management of urothelial tumors of the renal pelvis. Urology. 2001 Sep; 58(3):457-9.
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Fern KD, Manny RE, Garza R. Screening for anisometropia in preschool children. Optom Vis Sci. 1998 Jun; 75(6):407-23.
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