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Surgical procedure

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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.

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Submitting organisation:Help on this term
Cancer Australia
Reference documents:Help on this termStedman TL 2006. Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 28th Edition. Maryland: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins page 1877

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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        Health, Superseded 08/05/2014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        Health, Superseded 08/05/2014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        Health, Superseded 02/05/2013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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