| Qualifier English: | secondary | ||||
| Qualifier Spanish: | secundario 
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| Qualifier Portuguese: | secundário | ||||
| Qualifier French: | secondaire | ||||
| Entry term(s): | metastatic | ||||
| RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/Q000556 | ||||
| Scope note: | Used with neoplasms to indicate the secondary location to which the neoplastic process has metastasized. | ||||
| Annotation: | subhead only; for cancer only; use with organ/neopl precoords & with histol types; use with the secondary organ/neopl precoord & secondary histol type, but not for a primary cancer metastasizing to a secondary site ( = /pathology + NEOPLASM METASTASIS); see MeSH scope note in Introduction; indexing policy: Manual 19.8.65, 24.3.1; DF: /second or /SC | ||||
| Allowable Qualifiers: | No qualifiers | ||||
| Online Note: | search policy: Online Manual; use: main heading/SC or SC (SH) or SUBS APPLY SC | ||||
| History Note: | 80; used with Category C4 1980 forward | ||||
| Entry Version: | SECOND | ||||
| Abbreviation: | SC | ||||
| DeCS ID: | 22064 | ||||
| Unique ID: | Q000556 | ||||
| Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||
| Date Established: | 1980/01/01 | ||||
| Date of Entry: | 1979/05/24 | ||||
| Revision Date: | 2003/07/22 | 
                        
                                                                    
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                | Concept UI | M0030758 | 
| Scope note | Used with neoplasms to indicate the secondary location to which the neoplastic process has metastasized. | 
| Preferred term | secondary | 
| Entry term(s) | metastatic | 
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