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Descriptor English: Radial Neuropathy
Descriptor Spanish: Neuropatía Radial
Descriptor neuropatía radial
Entry term(s) parálisis del sábado por la noche
parálisis por muletas
Scope note: Enfermedad que afecta al NERVIO RADIAL Las características clínicas incluyen debilidad para la extensión del codo, flexión del codo, supinación del antebrazo, extensión de la muñeca y los dedos y abducción del pulgar. La sensibilidad puede alterarse en regiones del antebrazo dorsal. Entre las localizaciones comunes de compresión o de lesión traumática figuran la AXILA y el surco radial del HÚMERO.
Descriptor Portuguese: Neuropatia Radial
Descriptor French: Neuropathie du nerf radial
Entry term(s): Cheiralgia Paresthetica
Cheiralgia Parestheticas
Compression, Radial Nerve
Crutch Palsies
Crutch Palsy
Crutch Paralyses
Crutch Paralysis
Entrapment, Radial Nerve
Lesion, Superficial Radial Nerve
Mononeuropathy, Radial
Nerve Compression, Radial
Nerve Entrapment, Radial
Neuropathy, Radial
Night Palsies, Saturday
Night Palsy, Saturday
Palsies, Saturday Night
Palsy, Crutch
Palsy, Radial
Palsy, Radial Nerve
Palsy, Saturday Night
Paralysis, Crutch
Paresthetica, Cheiralgia
Posterior Interosseous Nerve Syndrome
Radial Mononeuropathies
Radial Mononeuropathy
Radial Nerve Compression
Radial Nerve Compressions
Radial Nerve Disease
Radial Nerve Diseases
Radial Nerve Entrapment
Radial Nerve Entrapments
Radial Nerve Palsies
Radial Nerve Palsy
Radial Neuropathies
Radial Palsies
Radial Palsy
Radial Tunnel Syndrome
Radial Tunnel Syndromes
Saturday Night Palsies
Saturday Night Palsy
Superficial Radial Nerve Lesion
Supinator Syndrome
Supinator Syndromes
Syndrome, Supinator
Tunnel Syndrome, Radial
Wartenberg Syndrome
Wrist Drop
Wrist-Drop
Tree number(s): C10.668.829.500.650
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D020425
Scope note: Disease involving the RADIAL NERVE. Clinical features include weakness of elbow extension, elbow flexion, supination of the forearm, wrist and finger extension, and thumb abduction. Sensation may be impaired over regions of the dorsal forearm. Common sites of compression or traumatic injury include the AXILLA and radial groove of the HUMERUS.
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: Peripheral Nervous System Diseases (1966-1999)
Public MeSH Note: 2000
History Note: 2000
DeCS ID: 34343
Unique ID: D020425
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Date Established: 2000/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/11/03
Revision Date: 2019/07/05
Radial Neuropathy - Preferred
Concept UI M0328281
Scope note Disease involving the RADIAL NERVE. Clinical features include weakness of elbow extension, elbow flexion, supination of the forearm, wrist and finger extension, and thumb abduction. Sensation may be impaired over regions of the dorsal forearm. Common sites of compression or traumatic injury include the AXILLA and radial groove of the HUMERUS.
Preferred term Radial Neuropathy
Entry term(s) Mononeuropathy, Radial
Neuropathy, Radial
Radial Mononeuropathies
Radial Mononeuropathy
Radial Nerve Disease
Radial Nerve Diseases
Radial Neuropathies
Supinator Syndrome
Supinator Syndromes
Syndrome, Supinator
Radial Nerve Entrapment - Broader
Concept UI M000640374
Preferred term Radial Nerve Entrapment
Entry term(s) Cheiralgia Paresthetica
Cheiralgia Parestheticas
Entrapment, Radial Nerve
Nerve Entrapment, Radial
Paresthetica, Cheiralgia
Radial Nerve Entrapments
Radial Tunnel Syndrome - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000640375
Preferred term Radial Tunnel Syndrome
Entry term(s) Radial Tunnel Syndromes
Tunnel Syndrome, Radial
Wartenberg Syndrome - Narrower
Concept UI M000640377
Preferred term Wartenberg Syndrome
Crutch Palsy - Narrower
Concept UI M0336149
Preferred term Crutch Palsy
Entry term(s) Crutch Palsies
Crutch Paralyses
Crutch Paralysis
Night Palsies, Saturday
Night Palsy, Saturday
Palsies, Saturday Night
Palsy, Crutch
Palsy, Radial
Palsy, Radial Nerve
Palsy, Saturday Night
Paralysis, Crutch
Radial Nerve Palsies
Radial Nerve Palsy
Radial Palsies
Radial Palsy
Saturday Night Palsies
Saturday Night Palsy
Lesion, Superficial Radial Nerve - Narrower
Concept UI M0336151
Preferred term Lesion, Superficial Radial Nerve
Entry term(s) Superficial Radial Nerve Lesion
Wrist-Drop - Narrower
Concept UI M000640372
Preferred term Wrist-Drop
Entry term(s) Wrist Drop
Posterior Interosseous Nerve Syndrome - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000640376
Preferred term Posterior Interosseous Nerve Syndrome
Radial Nerve Compression - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000648344
Preferred term Radial Nerve Compression
Entry term(s) Compression, Radial Nerve
Nerve Compression, Radial
Radial Nerve Compressions



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