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Descriptor English: Endophthalmitis
Descriptor Spanish: Endoftalmitis
Descriptor endoftalmitis
Entry term(s) endoftalmitis infecciosa
oftalmia
oftalmias
oftalmía
oftalmías
Scope note: Inflamación supurativa de los tejidos de las estructuras internas del ojo; no todas las capas de la úvea resultan afectadas. Los hongos, la necrosis de tumores intraoculares y los cuerpos extraños intraoculares retenidos son causas frecuentes de endoftalmitis purulenta.
Descriptor Portuguese: Endoftalmite
Descriptor French: Endophtalmie
Entry term(s): Endophthalmitides
Endophthalmitides, Infectious
Endophthalmitis, Infectious
Infectious Endophthalmitides
Infectious Endophthalmitis
Ophthalmia
Ophthalmias
Tree number(s): C01.375.265
C11.294.265
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009877
Scope note: Suppurative inflammation of the tissues of the internal structures of the eye frequently associated with an infection.
Annotation: restrict to endophthalmitis as a specific disease entity, not as a coordinate for inflammation of specific internal parts of the eye: these are available as -ITIS terms; ophthalmitis goes here; PANOPHTHALMITIS is also available: inflammation of all structures of the eye; EGYPTIAN OPHTHALMIA see TRACHOMA is also available
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
Public MeSH Note: 90; was OPHTHALMIA 1966-89
Online Note: use ENDOPHTHALMITIS to search OPHTHALMIA 1966-89
History Note: 90; was OPHTHALMIA 1966-89
Related: Panophthalmitis MeSH
DeCS ID: 28297
Unique ID: D009877
NLM Classification: WW 212
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1990/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2010/06/25
Endophthalmitis - Preferred
Concept UI M0015321
Scope note Suppurative inflammation of the tissues of the internal structures of the eye frequently associated with an infection.
Preferred term Endophthalmitis
Entry term(s) Endophthalmitides
Ophthalmia
Ophthalmias
Infectious Endophthalmitis - Narrower
Concept UI M0544308
Scope note Infectious condition of the internal eye.
Preferred term Infectious Endophthalmitis
Entry term(s) Endophthalmitides, Infectious
Endophthalmitis, Infectious
Infectious Endophthalmitides



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