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Descriptor English: Staghorn Calculi
Descriptor Spanish: Cálculos Coraliformes
Descriptor cálculos coraliformes
Entry term(s) cálculo en asta de ciervo
litiasis coraliforme
Scope note: Cálculo renal con aspecto característico, como la cornamenta de un ciervo, formado al extenderse por múltiples cálices renales de la PELVIS RENAL. Muchos de los cálculos coraliformes, al igual que otros CÁLCULOS URINARIOS, están compuestos por ESTRUVITA.
Descriptor Portuguese: Cálculos Coraliformes
Descriptor French: Calculs coralliformes
Entry term(s): Calculi, Staghorn
Calculus, Staghorn
Staghorn Calculus
Tree number(s): C12.050.351.968.419.600.500.500
C12.050.351.968.967.249.500.500
C12.050.351.968.967.500.503.500
C12.200.777.419.600.500.500
C12.200.777.967.249.500.500
C12.200.777.967.500.503.500
C12.950.419.600.500.500
C12.950.967.249.500.500
C12.950.967.500.503.500
C23.300.175.850.550.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000069856
Scope note: Renal calculi with a characteristic shape like antlers of a deer, formed as it extends into multiple calices of the RENAL PELVIS. A large number of staghorn calculi as well as other URINARY CALCULI are composed of STRUVITE.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CH chemistry
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
UL ultrastructure
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Kidney Calculi (1963-2016)
Public MeSH Note: 2017
History Note: 2017
Related: Struvite MeSH
DeCS ID: 56392
Unique ID: D000069856
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2017/01/01
Date of Entry: 2016/07/08
Revision Date: 2016/06/22
Staghorn Calculi - Preferred
Concept UI M000608079
Scope note Renal calculi with a characteristic shape like antlers of a deer, formed as it extends into multiple calices of the RENAL PELVIS. A large number of staghorn calculi as well as other URINARY CALCULI are composed of STRUVITE.
Preferred term Staghorn Calculi
Entry term(s) Calculi, Staghorn
Calculus, Staghorn
Staghorn Calculus



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