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Descriptor English: Lens Subluxation
Descriptor Spanish: Subluxación del Cristalino
Descriptor subluxación del cristalino
Entry term(s) luxación del cristalino
Scope note: Rotura incompleta de la zónula y el cristalino queda desplazado detrás de la pupila. En la luxación, o rotura incompleta, el cristalino se desplaza hacia adelante, hacia la cámara anterior, o hacia atrás, al interior del cuerpo vítreo. Cuando es congénita, esta afección se conoce como ECTOPIA DEL CRISTALINO.
Descriptor Portuguese: Subluxação do Cristalino
Descriptor French: Subluxation du cristallin
Entry term(s): Dislocation, Lens
Dislocations, Lens
Lens Dislocation
Lens Dislocation and Subluxation
Lens Dislocations
Lens Subluxations
Subluxation, Lens
Subluxations, Lens
Tree number(s): C11.510.598
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007906
Scope note: Incomplete rupture of the zonule with the displaced lens remaining behind the pupil. In dislocation, or complete rupture, the lens is displaced forward into the anterior chamber or backward into the vitreous body. When congenital, this condition is known as ECTOPIA LENTIS.
Annotation: spontaneous or traumatic; luxation = total disloc, subluxation = partial disloc
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
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
Entry Combination: congenital:Ectopia Lentis
Previous Indexing: Eye Diseases (1966-1977)
Eye Injuries (1966-1977)
Lens, Crystalline (1966-1977)
Public MeSH Note: 90; was LENS DISLOCATION AND SUBLUXATION 1978-89
Online Note: use LENS SUBLUXATION to search LENS DISLOCATION AND SUBLUXATION 1978-89
History Note: 90; was LENS DISLOCATION AND SUBLUXATION 1978-89
DeCS ID: 28300
Unique ID: D007906
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1978/01/01
Date of Entry: 1977/04/11
Revision Date: 1992/03/25
Lens Subluxation - Preferred
Concept UI M0012349
Scope note Incomplete rupture of the zonule with the displaced lens remaining behind the pupil. In dislocation, or complete rupture, the lens is displaced forward into the anterior chamber or backward into the vitreous body. When congenital, this condition is known as ECTOPIA LENTIS.
Preferred term Lens Subluxation
Entry term(s) Lens Subluxations
Subluxation, Lens
Subluxations, Lens
Lens Dislocation - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0012347
Preferred term Lens Dislocation
Entry term(s) Dislocation, Lens
Dislocations, Lens
Lens Dislocations
Lens Dislocation and Subluxation - Broader
Concept UI M0012348
Preferred term Lens Dislocation and Subluxation



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