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Descriptor English: Osteoarthritis, Knee
Descriptor Spanish: Osteoartritis de la Rodilla
Descriptor gonartrosis
Entry term(s) artrosis de la rodilla
artrosis de rodilla
osteoartritis de la rodilla
Scope note: Enfermedad degenerativa, no inflamatoria, de la articulación de la rodilla constituida por tres grandes categorías: afecciones que bloquean el movimiento sincrónico normal, afecciones que producen formas anormales de movimiento, y afecciones que producen concentración de la carga que da lugar a cambios en el cartílago articular. (Crenshaw, Campbell s Operative Orthopaedics, 8th ed, p2019)
Descriptor Portuguese: Osteoartrite do Joelho
Descriptor French: Gonarthrose
Entry term(s): Knee Osteoarthritides
Knee Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis of Knee
Osteoarthritis of the Knee
Tree number(s): C05.550.114.606.500
C05.799.613.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D020370
Scope note: Noninflammatory degenerative disease of the knee joint consisting of three large categories: conditions that block normal synchronous movement, conditions that produce abnormal pathways of motion, and conditions that cause stress concentration resulting in changes to articular cartilage. (Crenshaw, Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics, 8th ed, p2019)
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: Knee Joint (1965-1998)
Osteoarthritis (1965-1998)
Public MeSH Note: 99
History Note: 99
DeCS ID: 33759
Unique ID: D020370
NLM Classification: WE 870
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Date Established: 1999/01/01
Date of Entry: 1998/06/10
Revision Date: 2019/02/22
Osteoarthritis, Knee - Preferred
Concept UI M0030009
Scope note Noninflammatory degenerative disease of the knee joint consisting of three large categories: conditions that block normal synchronous movement, conditions that produce abnormal pathways of motion, and conditions that cause stress concentration resulting in changes to articular cartilage. (Crenshaw, Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics, 8th ed, p2019)
Preferred term Osteoarthritis, Knee
Entry term(s) Knee Osteoarthritides
Knee Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis of Knee
Osteoarthritis of the Knee



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