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Descriptor English: Diaphragmatic Eventration
Descriptor Spanish: Eventración Diafragmática
Descriptor eventración diafragmática
Scope note: Anomalía congénita caracterizada por elevación de la cúpula del DIAFRAGMA. Es consecuencia del adelgazamiento de la musculatura diafragmática y lesión del NERVIO FRÉNICO, y permite que las vÍsceras abdominales desplacen al diafragma hacia arriba, contra el PULMÓN.
Descriptor Portuguese: Eventração Diafragmática
Descriptor French: Éventration diaphragmatique
Entry term(s): Diaphragm Eventration
Eventration of Diaphragm
Eventration, Diaphragmatic
Tree number(s): C06.198.257
C16.131.314.244
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003965
Scope note: A congenital abnormality characterized by the elevation of the DIAPHRAGM dome. It is the result of a thinned diaphragmatic muscle and injured PHRENIC NERVE, allowing the intra-abdominal viscera to push the diaphragm upward against the LUNG.
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
DeCS ID: 3992
Unique ID: D003965
NLM Classification: WF 800
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2003/07/09
Diaphragmatic Eventration - Preferred
Concept UI M0006210
Scope note A congenital abnormality characterized by the elevation of the DIAPHRAGM dome. It is the result of a thinned diaphragmatic muscle and injured PHRENIC NERVE, allowing the intra-abdominal viscera to push the diaphragm upward against the LUNG.
Preferred term Diaphragmatic Eventration
Entry term(s) Diaphragm Eventration
Eventration of Diaphragm
Eventration, Diaphragmatic



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