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Descriptor English: Scleroplasty
Descriptor Spanish: Escleroplastia
Descriptor escleroplastia
Scope note: Cirugía plástica de la ESCLERÓTICA. Este procedimiento se emplea con frecuencia para prevenir la ceguera y el déficit visual en pacientes con MIOPÍA, sobre todo en los niños.
Descriptor Portuguese: Escleroplastia
Descriptor French: Scléroplastie
Entry term(s): Scleroplasties
Tree number(s): E04.540.825.968
E04.617.700
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016639
Scope note: Plastic surgery of the SCLERA. This procedure is used frequently to prevent blindness and poor vision in patients, especially children, with MYOPIA.
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MO mortality
MT methods
NU nursing
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
Previous Indexing: Myopia/surgery (1972-1991)
Sclera/surgery (1972-1991)
Public MeSH Note: 92
History Note: 92
DeCS ID: 29824
Unique ID: D016639
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Date Established: 1992/01/01
Date of Entry: 1991/01/25
Revision Date: 2007/07/09
Scleroplasty - Preferred
Concept UI M0025359
Scope note Plastic surgery of the SCLERA. This procedure is used frequently to prevent blindness and poor vision in patients, especially children, with MYOPIA.
Preferred term Scleroplasty
Entry term(s) Scleroplasties



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