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Descriptor English: Panuveitis
Descriptor Spanish: Panuveítis
Descriptor panuveítis
Scope note: Inflamación en la que tanto los segmentos anteriores como posteriores de la úvea están afectados y en la que no es manifiesto un foco específico. Con frecuencia es intensa y extensa y es un grave peligro para la visión. Entre las causas figuran enfermedades sistémicas, como la tuberculosis, sarcoidosis y sífilis, así como neoplasias malignas. El segmento intermedio del ojo no se afecta.
Descriptor Portuguese: Pan-Uveíte
Descriptor French: Panuvéite
Tree number(s): C11.941.879.780
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015864
Scope note: Inflammation in which both the anterior and posterior segments of the uvea are involved and a specific focus is not apparent. It is often severe and extensive and a serious threat to vision. Causes include systemic diseases such as tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, and syphilis, as well as malignancies. The intermediate segment of the eye is not involved.
Annotation: inflamm of anterior & posterior uvea
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: Uveitis (1977-1989)
Public MeSH Note: 90
History Note: 90
DeCS ID: 24826
Unique ID: D015864
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Date Established: 1990/01/01
Date of Entry: 1989/05/25
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Panuveitis - Preferred
Concept UI M0024288
Scope note Inflammation in which both the anterior and posterior segments of the uvea are involved and a specific focus is not apparent. It is often severe and extensive and a serious threat to vision. Causes include systemic diseases such as tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, and syphilis, as well as malignancies. The intermediate segment of the eye is not involved.
Preferred term Panuveitis



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