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Descriptor English: Ureteral Obstruction
Descriptor Spanish: Obstrucción Ureteral
Descriptor obstrucción ureteral
Scope note: Bloqueo en cualquier parte del URÉTER que causa la obstrucción del flujo de orina desde el riñón hasta la VEJIGA URINARIA. La obstrucción puede ser congénita, adquirida, unilateral, bilateral, completa, parcial, aguda o crónica. Dependiendo del grado y la duración de la obstrucción, las características clínicas, tales como la HIDRONEFROSIS y la nefropatía obstructiva, varían mucho.
Descriptor Portuguese: Obstrução Ureteral
Descriptor French: Obstruction urétérale
Entry term(s): Obstruction, Ureteral
Obstructions, Ureteral
Ureteral Obstructions
Tree number(s): C12.050.351.968.725.776
C12.200.777.725.776
C12.950.725.776
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014517
Scope note: Blockage in any part of the URETER causing obstruction of urine flow from the kidney to the URINARY BLADDER. The obstruction may be congenital, acquired, unilateral, bilateral, complete, partial, acute, or chronic. Depending on the degree and duration of the obstruction, clinical features vary greatly such as HYDRONEPHROSIS and obstructive nephropathy.
Annotation: do not confuse with URETHRAL OBSTRUCTION, especially in Romance languages: see note on "ureteral" & "urethral" under URETERAL DISEASES
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: 14916
Unique ID: D014517
NLM Classification: WJ 400
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2006/07/07
Ureteral Obstruction - Preferred
Concept UI M0022327
Scope note Blockage in any part of the URETER causing obstruction of urine flow from the kidney to the URINARY BLADDER. The obstruction may be congenital, acquired, unilateral, bilateral, complete, partial, acute, or chronic. Depending on the degree and duration of the obstruction, clinical features vary greatly such as HYDRONEPHROSIS and obstructive nephropathy.
Preferred term Ureteral Obstruction
Entry term(s) Obstruction, Ureteral
Obstructions, Ureteral
Ureteral Obstructions



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