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Descriptor English: Retinal Detachment
Descriptor Spanish: Desprendimiento de Retina
Descriptor desprendimiento de retina
Entry term(s) desprendimiento del epitelio pigmentario de la retina
Scope note: Separación de las capas internas de la retina (retina neural) del epitelio pigmentario. El desprednimiento de retina se da más comúnmente en hombres que en mujeres, en ojos con miopía degenerativa, en el envejecimiento y en la afaquia. Puede darse después de una extracción no complicada de cataratas, pero se ve más frcuentemente si se ha perdido humor vítreo durante la intervención quirúrgica. (Dorland, 27th ed; Newell, Ophthalmology: Principles and Concepts, 7th ed, p310-12).
Descriptor Portuguese: Descolamento Retiniano
Descriptor French: Décollement de la rétine
Entry term(s): Detachment, Retinal
Detachments, Retinal
Retinal Detachments
Retinal Pigment Epithelial Detachment
Tree number(s): C11.768.648
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012163
Scope note: Separation of the inner layers of the retina (neural retina) from the pigment epithelium. Retinal detachment occurs more commonly in men than in women, in eyes with degenerative myopia, in aging and in aphakia. It may occur after an uncomplicated cataract extraction, but it is seen more often if vitreous humor has been lost during surgery. (Dorland, 27th ed; Newell, Ophthalmology: Principles and Concepts, 7th ed, p310-12).
Annotation: /surg: consider also SCLERAL BUCKLING
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: Retinoschisis MeSH
Scleral Buckling MeSH
DeCS ID: 20181
Unique ID: D012163
NLM Classification: WW 270
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2012/07/03
Retinal Detachment - Preferred
Concept UI M0018943
Scope note Separation of the inner layers of the retina (neural retina) from the pigment epithelium. Retinal detachment occurs more commonly in men than in women, in eyes with degenerative myopia, in aging and in aphakia. It may occur after an uncomplicated cataract extraction, but it is seen more often if vitreous humor has been lost during surgery. (Dorland, 27th ed; Newell, Ophthalmology: Principles and Concepts, 7th ed, p310-12).
Preferred term Retinal Detachment
Entry term(s) Detachment, Retinal
Detachments, Retinal
Retinal Detachments
Retinal Pigment Epithelial Detachment - Narrower
Concept UI M0018944
Preferred term Retinal Pigment Epithelial Detachment



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