"Surgical Sponges" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Gauze material used to absorb body fluids during surgery. Referred to as GOSSYPIBOMA if accidentally retained in the body following surgery.
| Descriptor ID |
D015503
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E07.858.740
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| Concept/Terms |
Surgical Sponges- Surgical Sponges
- Surgical Sponge
- Sponge, Surgical
- Sponges, Surgical
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Surgical Sponges" by people in Profiles.
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Moua PK, Nguyen CL, Piotrowski DA, Resch MJ, Tabassum T, Noonan K, Nimunkar AJ. Surgical sponge blood salvage spinning device design and testing. J Med Eng Technol. 2018 Aug; 42(6):426-434.
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Arnold PM, Anderson KK, Selim A, Dryer RF, Kenneth Burkus J. Heterotopic ossification following single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: results from the prospective, multicenter, historically controlled trial comparing allograft to an optimized dose of rhBMP-2. J Neurosurg Spine. 2016 Sep; 25(3):292-302.
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Hudson DW, Guidry OF, Abernathy JH, Ehrenwerth J. Case 4--2012. Intrathoracic fire during coronary artery bypass graft surgery. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2012 Jun; 26(3):520-1.
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Bennett-Guerrero E, Pappas TN, Koltun WA, Fleshman JW, Lin M, Garg J, Mark DB, Marcet JE, Remzi FH, George VV, Newland K, Corey GR. Gentamicin-collagen sponge for infection prophylaxis in colorectal surgery. N Engl J Med. 2010 Sep 09; 363(11):1038-49.
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Reed MJ, Bradshaw AD, Shaw M, Sadoun E, Han N, Ferara N, Funk S, Puolakkainen P, Sage EH. Enhanced angiogenesis characteristic of SPARC-null mice disappears with age. J Cell Physiol. 2005 Sep; 204(3):800-7.