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MeSH Heading: Surgical Wound Infection
Tree Number(s): C01.947.692; C23.550.767.925
Unique ID: D013530
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013530
Annotation: coordinate IM with specific infection term (IM); do not coordinate with POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS
Scope Note: Infection occurring at the site of a surgical incision.
Entry Version: SURG WOUND INFECT
Entry Term(s): Infection, Postoperative Wound; Infection, Surgical Wound; Postoperative Wound Infection; Surgical Site Infection; Wound Infection, Postoperative; Wound Infection, Surgical
NLM Classification #: WO 185
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2019/06/17

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

transmission (TM)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Concept UI: M0020904
Scope Note: Infection occurring at the site of a surgical incision.
Terms: Surgical Wound Infection Preferred Term
Term UI T039816
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1966); Infection, Postoperative Wound
Term UI T039817
Date05/21/1981
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Infection, Surgical Wound
Term UI T039814
Date05/21/1981
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Postoperative Wound Infection
Term UI T039819
Date05/05/1983
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Wound Infection, Postoperative
Term UI T039818
Date05/21/1981
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Wound Infection, Surgical
Term UI T039815
Date05/21/1981
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Surgical Site Infection
Term UI T000871498
Date12/02/2014
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2016)

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