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Surgery, Computer-Assisted

"Surgery, Computer-Assisted" 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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Surgical procedures conducted with the aid of computers. This is most frequently used in orthopedic and laparoscopic surgery for implant placement and instrument guidance. Image-guided surgery interactively combines prior CT scans or MRI images with real-time video.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Surgery, Computer-Assisted" by people in this website by year, and whether "Surgery, Computer-Assisted" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 34 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2017
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