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Descriptor English: Sclerotherapy
Descriptor Spanish: Escleroterapia
Descriptor escleroterapia
Scope note: Tratamiento de venas varicosas, hemorroides, varices esofágicas y gástricas, y hemorragias producidas por úlceras pépticas por la inyección o infusión de agentes químicos que producen trombosis localizada y en último término fibrosis y obliteración de los vasos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Escleroterapia
Descriptor French: Sclérothérapie
Entry term(s): Sclerotherapies
Tree number(s): E02.319.805
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015911
Scope note: Treatment of varicose veins, hemorrhoids, gastric and esophageal varices, and peptic ulcer hemorrhage by injection or infusion of chemical agents which cause localized thrombosis and eventual fibrosis and obliteration of the vessels.
Annotation: coord IM with dis /ther (IM), not /drug ther
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
MO mortality
MT methods
NU nursing
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
Previous Indexing: Sclerosing Solutions (1966-1989)
Public MeSH Note: 90
History Note: 90
Entry Version: SCLEROTHER
Related: Sclerosing Solutions MeSH
DeCS ID: 24871
Unique ID: D015911
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Date Established: 1990/01/01
Date of Entry: 1989/05/16
Revision Date: 1991/06/20
Sclerotherapy - Preferred
Concept UI M0024347
Scope note Treatment of varicose veins, hemorrhoids, gastric and esophageal varices, and peptic ulcer hemorrhage by injection or infusion of chemical agents which cause localized thrombosis and eventual fibrosis and obliteration of the vessels.
Preferred term Sclerotherapy
Entry term(s) Sclerotherapies



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