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Descriptor English: Retinal Drusen
Descriptor Spanish: Drusas Retinianas
Descriptor drusas retinianas
Scope note: Cuerpos hialinos o de coloide que descansan debajo del epitelio pigmentario de la retina. Pueden ser secundarios a cambios en la coroides que afectan al pigmento del epitelio o consecuencia de un trastorno autosómico dominante del epitelio pigmentario de la retina.
Descriptor Portuguese: Drusas Retinianas
Descriptor French: Druses de la rétine
Entry term(s): Drusen, Retinal
Tree number(s): C11.768.585.585
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015593
Scope note: Colloid or hyaline bodies lying beneath the retinal pigment epithelium. They may occur either secondary to changes in the choroid that affect the pigment epithelium or as an autosomal dominant disorder of the retinal pigment epithelium.
Annotation: colloid or hyalin bodies under retinal pigment; do not confuse with OPTIC DISK DRUSEN, hyalin bodies in optic nerve
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: Hyalin Substance (1966-1989)
Macular Degeneration (1975-1989)
Pigment Epithelium of Eye (1966-1989)
Public MeSH Note: 90
History Note: 90
DeCS ID: 24863
Unique ID: D015593
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Date Established: 1990/01/01
Date of Entry: 1989/05/25
Revision Date: 1993/06/02
Retinal Drusen - Preferred
Concept UI M0023937
Scope note Colloid or hyaline bodies lying beneath the retinal pigment epithelium. They may occur either secondary to changes in the choroid that affect the pigment epithelium or as an autosomal dominant disorder of the retinal pigment epithelium.
Preferred term Retinal Drusen
Entry term(s) Drusen, Retinal



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