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Descriptor English: Salpingitis
Descriptor Spanish: Salpingitis
Descriptor salpingitis
Scope note: Inflamación del salpinx uterino, las TROMPAS DE FALOPIO con forma de trompeta, generalmente causada por infecciones ascendentes de organismos a partir del tracto reproductor inferior. La salpingitis puede producir cicatrización tubárica, hidrosalpinx, oclusión tubárica, INFERTILIDAD y EMBARAZO ECTÓPICO.
Descriptor Portuguese: Salpingite
Descriptor French: Salpingite
Entry term(s): Salpingitides
Tree number(s): C12.050.351.500.056.390.890
C12.050.351.500.056.750.875
C12.100.250.056.390.890
C12.100.250.056.750.875
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012488
Scope note: Inflammation of the uterine salpinx, the trumpet-shaped FALLOPIAN TUBES, usually caused by ascending infections of organisms from the lower reproductive tract. Salpingitis can lead to tubal scarring, hydrosalpinx, tubal occlusion, INFERTILITY, and ectopic pregnancy (PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC)
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
DeCS ID: 12865
Unique ID: D012488
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2006/07/05
Salpingitis - Preferred
Concept UI M0019403
Scope note Inflammation of the uterine salpinx, the trumpet-shaped FALLOPIAN TUBES, usually caused by ascending infections of organisms from the lower reproductive tract. Salpingitis can lead to tubal scarring, hydrosalpinx, tubal occlusion, INFERTILITY, and ectopic pregnancy (PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC)
Preferred term Salpingitis
Entry term(s) Salpingitides



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