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Descriptor English: Granuloma, Foreign-Body
Descriptor Spanish: Granuloma de Cuerpo Extraño
Descriptor granuloma de cuerpo extraño
Scope note: Respuesta inflamatoria, histiocítica, a un cuerpo extraño. Constituida por macrófagos modificados, con células gigantes multinucleadas, en este caso células gigantes de un cuerpo extraño (CELULAS GIGANTES DE CUERPO EXTRAÑO), usualmente rodeadas por linfocitos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Granuloma de Corpo Estranho
Descriptor French: Granulome à corps étranger
Entry term(s): Foreign Body Granuloma
Foreign-Body Granuloma
Foreign-Body Granulomas
Granuloma, Foreign Body
Granulomas, Foreign-Body
Tree number(s): C23.550.382.437
C26.392.560.325
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015745
Scope note: Histiocytic, inflammatory response to a foreign body. It consists of modified macrophages with multinucleated giant cells, in this case foreign-body giant cells (GIANT CELLS, FOREIGN-BODY), usually surrounded by lymphocytes.
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
Previous Indexing: Foreign Bodies (1966-1989)
Foreign Body Reaction (1972-1989)
Granuloma (1966-1989)
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under FOREIGN BODY REACTION 1990
History Note: 91(90); was see under FOREIGN BODY REACTION 1990
DeCS ID: 24701
Unique ID: D015745
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1989/06/19
Revision Date: 2010/06/25
Granuloma, Foreign-Body - Preferred
Concept UI M0024134
Scope note Histiocytic, inflammatory response to a foreign body. It consists of modified macrophages with multinucleated giant cells, in this case foreign-body giant cells (GIANT CELLS, FOREIGN-BODY), usually surrounded by lymphocytes.
Preferred term Granuloma, Foreign-Body
Entry term(s) Foreign Body Granuloma
Foreign-Body Granuloma
Foreign-Body Granulomas
Granuloma, Foreign Body
Granulomas, Foreign-Body



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