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Descriptor English: Cysts
Descriptor Spanish: Quistes
Descriptor quistes
Scope note: Cualquier cavidad o saco cerrado, revestido por un EPITELIO y lleno de material líquido. Los quistes pueden estar formados por tejidos normales, anormales, no neoplásicos o neoplásicos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Cistos
Descriptor French: Kystes
Entry term(s): Cyst
Tree number(s): C04.182
C23.300.306
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003560
Scope note: Any fluid-filled closed cavity or sac that is lined by an EPITHELIUM. Cysts can be of normal, abnormal, non-neoplastic, or neoplastic tissues.
Annotation: coord with organ/diseases term; specific terms indented under CYSTS are either neoplastic or non-neopl: check under each; intestinal gas cysts = PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS; CYSTIC ADENOMATOID MALFORMATION OF LUNG, CONGENITAL is also available
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
BS blood supply
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CH chemistry
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
UL ultrastructure
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
DeCS ID: 3577
Unique ID: D003560
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2006/07/05
Cysts - Preferred
Concept UI M0005563
Scope note Any fluid-filled closed cavity or sac that is lined by an EPITHELIUM. Cysts can be of normal, abnormal, non-neoplastic, or neoplastic tissues.
Preferred term Cysts
Entry term(s) Cyst



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