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Descriptor English: Endometritis
Descriptor Spanish: Endometritis
Descriptor endometritis
Scope note: Inflamación del ENDOMETRIO, causada generalmente por infecciones intrauterinas. La endometritis es la causa más frecuente de fiebre postparto.
Descriptor Portuguese: Endometrite
Descriptor French: Endométrite
Entry term(s): Endomyometritis
Tree number(s): C12.050.351.500.056.750.249
C12.050.351.500.852.299
C12.100.250.056.750.249
C12.100.250.852.299
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004716
Scope note: Inflammation of the ENDOMETRIUM, usually caused by intrauterine infections. Endometritis is the most common cause of postpartum fever.
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
DeCS ID: 4795
Unique ID: D004716
NLM Classification: WP 451
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2006/07/05
Endometritis - Preferred
Concept UI M0007414
Scope note Inflammation of the ENDOMETRIUM, usually caused by intrauterine infections. Endometritis is the most common cause of postpartum fever.
Preferred term Endometritis
Endomyometritis - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0401966
Scope note Inflammation of both the ENDOMETRIUM and the MYOMETRIUM, usually caused by infections after a CESAREAN SECTION.
Preferred term Endomyometritis



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