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• TITLE: Historical Development of Modern Surgery in America

  AUTHORS: Yeu-Tsu Margaret Lee

  KEYWORDS: Surgery, Historical Development, America, Medical History

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Historical Studies, Vol.5 No.4, September 12, 2016

  ABSTRACT: Surgeons use operative procedure to save life and to treat patient’s disease. Advances are made with new operations and/or designing and modification of surgical instrument. This paper reviews the great surgical advances in the United States in the last century, presented in tabular form and arranged chronologically by year of first publication. Major topics covered include: cancer management, pulmonary, cardiac and vascular surgery, war surgery, care of trauma and burn, minimal invasive and robot surgery, organ transplantation and facial reconstruction, medical and surgical devices.