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Descriptor English: Electrochemotherapy
Descriptor Spanish: Electroquimioterapia
Descriptor electroquimioterapia
Scope note: Modalidad de tratamiento que utiliza impulsos eléctricos para permeabilizar las membranas celulares (ELECTROPORACIÓN) y favorecer de este modo la entrada de agentes quimioterápicos en las células del organismo.
Descriptor Portuguese: Eletroquimioterapia
Descriptor French: Électrochimiothérapie
Entry term(s): Electrochemotherapies
Tree number(s): E02.319.341
E02.348.500
E05.200.500.454.750.500
E05.242.448.750.500
E05.301.500.750.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D053672
Scope note: A cancer treatment modality that uses pulsed electrical currents to permeabilize cell membranes (ELECTROPORATION) and thereby enhance the uptake of chemotherapeutic agents into the body's cells.
Annotation: coordinate with disease/drug ther
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
Previous Indexing: Electric Stimulation Therapy (1997-2006)
Electroporation (2001-2006)
Public MeSH Note: 2007
History Note: 2007
DeCS ID: 52425
Unique ID: D053672
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2007/01/01
Date of Entry: 2006/07/05
Revision Date: 2019/07/05
Electrochemotherapy - Preferred
Concept UI M0495509
Scope note A cancer treatment modality that uses pulsed electrical currents to permeabilize cell membranes (ELECTROPORATION) and thereby enhance the uptake of chemotherapeutic agents into the body's cells.
Preferred term Electrochemotherapy
Entry term(s) Electrochemotherapies



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