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Descriptor English: Retroperitoneal Space
Descriptor Spanish: Espacio Retroperitoneal
Descriptor espacio retroperitoneal
Scope note: Área que ocupa el lado más posterior de la CAVIDAD ABDOMINAL. Está limitado lateralmente por los músculos cuadrados lumbares y se extiende desde el DIAFRAGMA hasta el borde de la PELVIS verdadera, donde se continúa con el llamado espacio pélvico extraperitoneal.
Descriptor Portuguese: Espaço Retroperitoneal
Descriptor French: Espace rétropéritonéal
Entry term(s): Retroperitoneal Spaces
Space, Retroperitoneal
Spaces, Retroperitoneal
Tree number(s): A01.923.047.025.750
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012187
Scope note: An area occupying the most posterior aspect of the ABDOMINAL CAVITY. It is bounded laterally by the borders of the quadratus lumborum muscles and extends from the DIAPHRAGM to the brim of the true PELVIS, where it continues as the pelvic extraperitoneal space.
Annotation: usually NIM as locational; diagnostic retropneumoperitoneum or pneumoretroperitoneum: index RETROPERITONEAL SPACE /diag image + PNEUMORADIOGRAPHY (do not confuse with the pathological condition, RETROPNEUMOPERITONEUM)
Allowable Qualifiers: AB abnormalities
AH anatomy & histology
BS blood supply
DG diagnostic imaging
EM embryology
GD growth & development
IN injuries
IR innervation
MI microbiology
PA pathology
PH physiology
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
RE radiation effects
SU surgery
VI virology
DeCS ID: 12604
Unique ID: D012187
NLM Classification: WI 575
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2016/04/19
Retroperitoneal Space - Preferred
Concept UI M0018976
Scope note An area occupying the most posterior aspect of the ABDOMINAL CAVITY. It is bounded laterally by the borders of the quadratus lumborum muscles and extends from the DIAPHRAGM to the brim of the true PELVIS, where it continues as the pelvic extraperitoneal space.
Preferred term Retroperitoneal Space
Entry term(s) Retroperitoneal Spaces
Space, Retroperitoneal
Spaces, Retroperitoneal



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