Surgical procedure
Glossary Item Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
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| METEOR identifier: | 439584 |
| Registration status: | Health, Standard 07/12/2011 |
| Definition: | Surgery is the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of disease, injury and deformity by physical operation or manipulation. Surgical procedure refers to the performance of an operation. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Cancer Australia |
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| Reference documents: | Stedman TL 2006. Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 28th Edition. Maryland: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins page 1877 |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | See also Cancer treatment—surgery target site, topography code (ICD-O-3) ANN.N Health, Superseded 08/05/2014 See also Cancer treatment—surgical procedure date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 08/05/2014 See also Cancer treatment—surgical procedure for cancer, procedure code (ACHI 7th edn) NNNNN-NN Health, Superseded 02/05/2013 |
| Metadata items which use this glossary item: | Cancer treatment—surgical procedure for cancer Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—surgical procedure for prostate cancer, code N Health, Standard 14/05/2015 Prostate cancer (clinical) NBPDS Health, Standard 14/05/2015 Surgical procedure for cancer Health, Standard 04/06/2004 |