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Surgical procedure

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termGlossary Item
METEOR identifier:Help on this term439584
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Standard 07/12/2011
Definition:Help on this termSurgery 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:Help on this termCancer Australia
Reference documents:Help on this termStedman TL 2006. Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 28th Edition. Maryland: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins page 1877

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
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  • Health, Superseded 08/05/2014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  • Health, Superseded 08/05/2014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  • Health, Superseded 02/05/2013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:Help on this term
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
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