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Descriptor English: Pyonephrosis
Descriptor Spanish: Pionefrosis
Descriptor pionefrosis
Scope note: Distensión del RIÑÓN con presencia de PUS y destrucción supurativa del parénquima renal. Con frecuencia se asocia a obstrucción renal y puede dar lugar a pérdida total o casi total de la función renal.
Descriptor Portuguese: Pionefrose
Descriptor French: Pyonéphrose
Entry term(s): Hydronephrosis, Infected
Infected Hydronephrosis
Tree number(s): C12.050.351.968.419.307.500
C12.200.777.419.307.500
C12.950.419.307.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D053018
Scope note: Distention of KIDNEY with the presence of PUS and suppurative destruction of the renal parenchyma. It is often associated with renal obstruction and can lead to total or nearly total loss of renal function.
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
Public MeSH Note: 2007; see PYELONEPHRITIS 1984-2006
History Note: 2007; use PYELONEPHRITIS 1984-2006
DeCS ID: 52122
Unique ID: D053018
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Date Established: 2007/01/01
Date of Entry: 2006/07/05
Pyonephrosis - Preferred
Concept UI M0018196
Scope note Distention of KIDNEY with the presence of PUS and suppurative destruction of the renal parenchyma. It is often associated with renal obstruction and can lead to total or nearly total loss of renal function.
Preferred term Pyonephrosis
Entry term(s) Hydronephrosis, Infected
Infected Hydronephrosis



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