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Descriptor English: Splenomegaly
Descriptor Spanish: Esplenomegalia
Descriptor esplenomegalia
Entry term(s) bazo agrandado
Scope note: Aumento de tamaño del bazo.
Descriptor Portuguese: Esplenomegalia
Descriptor French: Splénomégalie
Entry term(s): Enlarged Spleen
Spleen, Enlarged
Tree number(s): C23.300.775.750
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013163
Scope note: Enlargement of the spleen.
Annotation: do not confuse with HYPERSPLENISM, increase in splenic hemolytic function; IM only if point of article; do not index at all if the usual symptom of a disease; NIM if merely one of many symptoms in article
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: Hypersplenism MeSH
DeCS ID: 13546
Unique ID: D013163
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: 1999/11/04
Splenomegaly - Preferred
Concept UI M0020373
Scope note Enlargement of the spleen.
Preferred term Splenomegaly
Entry term(s) Enlarged Spleen
Spleen, Enlarged



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