Gastrostomy

"Gastrostomy" 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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Creation of an artificial external opening into the stomach for nutritional support or gastrointestinal compression.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Gastrostomy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Gastrostomy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 72 publications over 23 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2006
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