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Descriptor English: Pancoast Syndrome
Descriptor Spanish: Síndrome de Pancoast
Descriptor síndrome de Pancoast
Scope note: Afección causada por un tumor pulmonar apical (tumor de Pancoast) con implicación del PLEXO BRAQUIAL y columna vertebral próximos. Entre sus síntomas figuran dolor en el hombro y brazo, y atrofia de la mano.
Descriptor Portuguese: Síndrome de Pancoast
Descriptor French: Syndrome de Pancoast-Tobias
Entry term(s): Pancoast Tumor
Pancoast's Syndrome
Pancoasts Syndrome
Syndrome, Pancoast
Syndrome, Pancoast's
Tumor, Pancoast
Tree number(s): C04.588.894.797.520.734
C08.381.540.734
C08.785.520.734
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010178
Scope note: A condition caused by an apical lung tumor (Pancoast tumor) with involvement of the nearby vertebral column and the BRACHIAL PLEXUS. Symptoms include pain in the shoulder and the arm, and atrophy of the hand.
Annotation: an apicocostovertebral syndrome
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
BS blood supply
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CH chemistry
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
SC secondary
SU surgery
TH therapy
UL ultrastructure
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 2009; see PANCOAST'S SYNDROME 1963-2008
History Note: 2009 (1963)
DeCS ID: 10366
Unique ID: D010178
NLM Classification: WF 658
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2009/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Pancoast Syndrome - Preferred
Concept UI M0015789
Scope note A condition caused by an apical lung tumor (Pancoast tumor) with involvement of the nearby vertebral column and the BRACHIAL PLEXUS. Symptoms include pain in the shoulder and the arm, and atrophy of the hand.
Preferred term Pancoast Syndrome
Entry term(s) Pancoast's Syndrome
Pancoasts Syndrome
Syndrome, Pancoast
Syndrome, Pancoast's
Pancoast Tumor - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0520120
Scope note A lung tumor located in the superior pulmonary sulcus.
Preferred term Pancoast Tumor
Entry term(s) Tumor, Pancoast



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