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Descriptor English: Electrocoagulation
Descriptor Spanish: Electrocoagulación
Descriptor electrocoagulación
Entry term(s) diatermia quirúrgica
electrocauterio
fulguración endocavitaria
galvanocauterio
termocoagulación
Scope note: Procedimientos que utilizan un cable o bisturí calentado eléctricamente para tratar la hemorragia (por ejemplo, úlceras sangrantes) y ablación de tumores, lesiones de la mucosa, arritmias refractarias. Es diferente de la ELECTROCIRUGÍA que se utiliza más para cortar tejido que para destruir y en el cual el paciente es parte del circuito eléctrico.
Descriptor Portuguese: Eletrocoagulação
Descriptor French: Électrocoagulation
Entry term(s): Diathermy, Surgical
Electrocautery
Endocavitary Fulguration
Fulguration, Endocavitary
Galvanocautery
Surgical Diathermy
Thermocoagulation
Tree number(s): E02.154.402
E04.014.170.402
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004564
Scope note: Procedures using an electrically heated wire or scalpel to treat hemorrhage (e.g., bleeding ulcers) and to ablate tumors, mucosal lesions, and refractory arrhythmias. It is different from ELECTROSURGERY which is used more for cutting tissue than destroying and in which the patient is part of the electric circuit.
Annotation: coordinate with organ or disease /surg
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
MO mortality
MT methods
NU nursing
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
Entry Version: ELECTROCOAG
DeCS ID: 4636
Unique ID: D004564
NLM Classification: WO 198
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Electrocoagulation - Preferred
Concept UI M0007176
Scope note Procedures using an electrically heated wire or scalpel to treat hemorrhage (e.g., bleeding ulcers) and to ablate tumors, mucosal lesions, and refractory arrhythmias. It is different from ELECTROSURGERY which is used more for cutting tissue than destroying and in which the patient is part of the electric circuit.
Preferred term Electrocoagulation
Entry term(s) Diathermy, Surgical
Electrocautery
Endocavitary Fulguration
Fulguration, Endocavitary
Galvanocautery
Surgical Diathermy
Thermocoagulation



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