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Descriptor English: Exanthema
Descriptor Spanish: Exantema
Descriptor exantema
Entry term(s) erupción cutánea
rash cutáneo
salpullido
sarpullido
Scope note: Enfermedades en las que la manifestación predominante es una erupción en la piel o rash. Clásicamente, se han descrito seis de estas enfermedades con erupciones similares; que se enumeran en el orden en que fueron descritas. Sólo las designaciones numéricas cuarta (enfermedad de Duke), quinta (ERITEMA INFECCIOSO), y sexta (EXANTEMA SÚBITO) sobreviven como sinónimos ocasionales en la terminología actual.
Descriptor Portuguese: Exantema
Descriptor French: Exanthème
Entry term(s): Exanthem
Rash
Rash, Skin
Skin Rash
Tree number(s): C17.800.257
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005076
Scope note: Diseases in which skin eruptions or rashes are a prominent manifestation. Classically, six such diseases were described with similar rashes; they were numbered in the order in which they were reported. Only the fourth (Duke's disease), fifth (ERYTHEMA INFECTIOSUM), and sixth (EXANTHEMA SUBITUM) numeric designations survive as occasional synonyms in current terminology.
Annotation: a skin eruption usually chem- or viral-induced; EXANTHEMA SUBITUM is also available
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Related: Wissler's Syndrome MeSH
DeCS ID: 5175
Unique ID: D005076
NLM Classification: WR 220
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1997/06/20
Exanthema - Preferred
Concept UI M0007993
Scope note Diseases in which skin eruptions or rashes are a prominent manifestation. Classically, six such diseases were described with similar rashes; they were numbered in the order in which they were reported. Only the fourth (Duke's disease), fifth (ERYTHEMA INFECTIOSUM), and sixth (EXANTHEMA SUBITUM) numeric designations survive as occasional synonyms in current terminology.
Preferred term Exanthema
Entry term(s) Exanthem
Rash
Rash, Skin
Skin Rash



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