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Pages in category "Surgical specialties" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abdominal surgery; B.
Surgical or internal medicine; Age range of patients; Diagnostic or therapeutic; Organ-based or technique-based; Throughout history, the most important has been the division into surgical and internal medicine specialties. The surgical specialties are those in which an important part of diagnosis and treatment is achieved through major surgical ...
Surgery [a] is a medical specialty that uses manual and instrumental techniques to diagnose or treat pathological conditions (e.g., trauma, disease, injury, malignancy), to alter bodily functions (e.g., malabsorption created by bariatric surgery such as gastric bypass), to reconstruct or improve aesthetics and appearance (cosmetic surgery), or to remove unwanted tissues (body fat, glands ...
Surgical specialties (25 C, 22 P) ... The following 123 pages are in this category, out of 123 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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History of medical and surgical specialties (10 C, 3 P) Interdisciplinary subfields of medicine (3 P) Medical and health organizations by subject (95 C)
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One of the first surgical procedures developed was percutaneous tenotomy. This involved cutting a tendon, originally the Achilles tendon, to help treat deformities alongside bracing and exercises. In the late 1800s and first decades of the 1900s, significant controversy arose about whether orthopedics should include surgical procedures at all.