My appologies; this was already answered. Going thru old emails.
— On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Finan, Sean <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sangram, > Just fyi, users of some email apps (e.g. Outlook) may not be able to reply to > a message with a web address in the title. > Now to your question: >>69 y.o. Caucasian gentleman with a history of prostate cancer s/p open RRP in >>9/2005 for a pT2c, GS3+4 prostate cancer excised with a negative margin. >> on what basis I can make out if the patient has underwent prostatectomy > The output has underlined "RRP" and marked it as a procedure with UMLS CUI > C0194825 . > As the author of the question, you probably already know that an rrp is a > (radical retropubic) prostatectomy. However, if you did not then you can see > that it is marked in the sentence as a procedure, making it a candidate. If > you visit the UMLS metathesaurus https://uts.nlm.nih.gov/metathesaurus.html > and enter the CUI C0194825 . The metathesaurus will display (among other > things): > Radical retropubic prostatectomy > Therapeutic or Preventative Procedure > Surgery to remove all of the prostate and nearby lymph nodes through an > incision in the wall of the abdomen. > If you aren't able to use the metathesaurus then you can apply for a free > user license from the nlm: > https://uts.nlm.nih.gov//license.html<https://uts.nlm.nih.gov/license.html> > If you would like to have more information (such as term preferred text > listing), please add a jira item as a "nice to have" and maybe somebody will > implement it. It isn't in there now because I didn't want the display to get > cluttered. > Sean
