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Tutorial: How to Use the Database
The Medical Modeling and Simulation Database has over 200,000 entries. There are three basic approaches to searching the MMSD, Concept, Pattern and Boolean. If you would like to perform more advanced searches in the Database you may click on the Help of the search box where advanced search parameters are provided.
The three basic search functions will provide similar results with some changes in the ranking of the results.
Types of Searches:
Pattern Search:
Plain English entries that allows for mis-spellings. Ranks returned documents for relevance.
Most effective when:
- you are looking for a word that is a proper noun with variant spellings
- you are looking for a specific term or phrase, but you are not sure of the spelling
Concept and Boolean Searches may also be conducted. Concept is similar to Pattern and will search for the word entered. Boolean, is a search containing the words "and", "or" and "not".
Search Results Column Headings
When conducting a Search the results will appear with the column headings. Column headings are explained below. Above the Headings will be the number of results within the Search:
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Results 1-25 of 500 containing"Virtual Reality
NOT Simulators"
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Rank
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Title
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Full Author
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Date of
Publication
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PublicationType
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Rank: Is the relevance to the contents of the Search with 100 being the highest relevance. A Pattern Search of Vascular Surgery produces:
When you "click" on the Rank heading, the highest rank order of relevance will appear:
Date of Publication: The column allows sorting by Date of Publication:
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Results 1-25
of 500 containing"neurological surgery"
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After "two clicks" on Date of Publication: First Click is Ascending Order, Second Click is Descending Order:
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Results 1-25
of 500 containing"neurological surgery"
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Rank
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Title
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Date of
Publication
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Full Author
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Publication
Type
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1.
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93
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Toward
image-guided robotic surgery: Determining intrinsic accuracy of the da
Vinci robot Kwartowitz DM, Herrell SD, Galloway RL, Department of
Biomedical Engineering, Department of Urologic Surgery, Departments of
Surgery and Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
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2007 Mar-Apr
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Herrell, S Duke
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Journal Article
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61
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Suspected
atlantoaxial rotatory fixation-subluxation: the value of multidetector
computed tomography scanning under general anesthesia.
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2007 Mar 1
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Been, Henk D; Kerkhoffs, Gino M M J; Maas, Mario
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Case Reports; Journal Article
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Full Author will produce an alphabetical ordering when you "click" on Full Author: A Pattern Search for Pediatric Surgery:
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Results 1-25
of 500 containing"Pediatric surgery"
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After two "clicks" on Full author: The First "click" is Ascending order and the
Second "click" is Descending order:
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Results 1-25
of 500 containing"pediatric surgery"
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Edit
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Rank
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Title
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Date of
Publication
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Full Author
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Publication
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67
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Robot-assisted
endoscopic intrauterine myelomeningocele repair: a feasibility study.
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2002 Feb
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Aaronson, Oran S; Tulipan, Noel B; Cywes,
Robert; Sundell, Hakan W; Davis, Georges H; Bruner, Joseph P; Richards,
William O
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Journal Article
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61
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A
cephalometric study of the effect of extraction of lower first permanent
molars.
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2000 Spring
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Abu Aihaija, E S; McSheny, P F; Richardson, A
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Journal Article
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