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Descriptor English: Ureteral Calculi
Descriptor Spanish: Cálculos Ureterales
Descriptor cálculos ureterales
Entry term(s) cálculos en el uréter
piedras uretéricas
Scope note: Cálculos del ureter, generalmente consecuencia del paso de un cálculo que se origina en el riñón. Suele presentarse a mediados de la vida, infrecuentemente en niños; y es más frecuente en hombres que en mujeres. (CMIT, 5th ed)
Descriptor Portuguese: Cálculos Ureterais
Descriptor French: Calculs urétéraux
Entry term(s): Calculi, Ureteral
Calculus, Ureteral
Ureteral Calculus
Tree number(s): C12.050.351.968.725.938.500
C12.050.351.968.967.374.500
C12.050.351.968.967.500.851
C12.200.777.725.938.500
C12.200.777.967.374.500
C12.200.777.967.500.851
C12.950.725.938.500
C12.950.967.374.500
C12.950.967.500.851
C23.300.175.850.750
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014514
Scope note: Stones in the URETER that are formed in the KIDNEY. They are rarely more than 5 mm in diameter for larger renal stones cannot enter ureters. They are often lodged at the ureteral narrowing and can cause excruciating renal colic.
Annotation: chem composition of caclculi use /chem; /ultrastruct permitted
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CH chemistry
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
UL ultrastructure
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Online Note: to search for chem composition of ureteral calculi, use URETERAL CALCULI/anal 1987-90 & URETERAL CALCULI/metab 1966-86
DeCS ID: 24370
Unique ID: D014514
NLM Classification: WJ 400
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: 2006/07/05
Ureteral Calculi - Preferred
Concept UI M0022323
Scope note Stones in the URETER that are formed in the KIDNEY. They are rarely more than 5 mm in diameter for larger renal stones cannot enter ureters. They are often lodged at the ureteral narrowing and can cause excruciating renal colic.
Preferred term Ureteral Calculi
Entry term(s) Calculi, Ureteral
Calculus, Ureteral
Ureteral Calculus



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