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Collection Development Guidelines of the National Library of Medicine [Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US); 2019-.
Collection Development Guidelines of the National Library of Medicine [Internet].
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The branch of medicine in which manual or operative procedures are used in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, injuries, or deformities.
Discussion
Specialties include neurological, orthopaedic, plastic, thoracic, and colon and rectal surgery.
Scope and emphasis
Collected comprehensively.
Special considerations
Still and moving images depicting surgical techniques are of particular interest. NLM has an extensive historical collection in surgery and holds the papers of several key surgical organizations.
- Surgery - Collection Development Guidelines of the National Library of MedicineSurgery - Collection Development Guidelines of the National Library of Medicine
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