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Descriptor English: Rheumatology
Descriptor Spanish: Reumatología
Descriptor reumatología
Scope note: Subespecialidad de la medicina interna que se ocupa del estudio de los procesos inflamatorios y degenerativos y del deterioro metabólico de las estructuras del tejido conjuntivo que son propios de una variedad de trastornos musculoesqueléticos, como la artritis.
Descriptor Portuguese: Reumatologia
Descriptor French: Rhumatologie
Tree number(s): H02.403.429.730
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012219
Scope note: A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the study of inflammatory or degenerative processes and metabolic derangement of connective tissue structures which pertain to a variety of musculoskeletal disorders, such as arthritis.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Rheumatism (1966-1979)
Public MeSH Note: 80
History Note: 80
Entry Version: RHEUMATOL
Related: Collagen Diseases MeSH
Rheumatic Diseases MeSH
DeCS ID: 12630
Unique ID: D012219
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1980/01/01
Date of Entry: 1979/05/29
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Rheumatology - Preferred
Concept UI M0019018
Scope note A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the study of inflammatory or degenerative processes and metabolic derangement of connective tissue structures which pertain to a variety of musculoskeletal disorders, such as arthritis.
Preferred term Rheumatology



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