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Descriptor English: Pulmonary Medicine
Descriptor Spanish: Neumología
Descriptor medicina pulmonar
Entry term(s) neumología
Scope note: Subespecialidad de la medicina interna que se ocupa del estudio del SISTEMA RESPIRATORIO. Se ocupa principalmente del diagnóstico y del tratamiento de las enfermedades y defectos de los pulmones y del árbol bronquial.
Descriptor Portuguese: Pneumologia
Descriptor French: Pneumologie
Entry term(s): Medicine, Pulmonary
Medicine, Respiratory
Pneumology
Pneumonology
Pulmonology
Respiratory Medicine
Tree number(s): H02.403.429.675
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015272
Scope note: A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the study of the RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. It is especially concerned with diagnosis and treatment of diseases and defects of the lungs and bronchial tree.
Annotation: specialty only; do not confuse with LUNG DISEASES
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Internal Medicine (1966-1988)
Lung Diseases (1966-1988)
Public MeSH Note: 2009; see PULMONARY DISEASE (SPECIALTY) 1989-2008
History Note: 2009 (1989)
Entry Version: PULM MED
DeCS ID: 23806
Unique ID: D015272
NLM Classification: WF 21
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1989/01/01
Date of Entry: 1988/05/19
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Pulmonary Medicine - Preferred
Concept UI M0023512
Scope note A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the study of the RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. It is especially concerned with diagnosis and treatment of diseases and defects of the lungs and bronchial tree.
Preferred term Pulmonary Medicine
Entry term(s) Medicine, Pulmonary
Medicine, Respiratory
Pneumology
Pneumonology
Pulmonology
Respiratory Medicine



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