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Descriptor English: Fox-Fordyce Disease
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermedad de Fox-Fordyce
Descriptor enfermedad de Fox-Fordyce
Entry term(s) miliaria apocrina
Scope note: Enfermedad crónica, por lo general pruriginosa, que afecta principalmente a las mujeres. Se caracteriza por la formación de pequeñas erupciones papulosas foliculares en las zonas de las glándulas apocrinas, debido a la obstrucción y rotura de la porción intraepidérmica de los conductos de las glándulas afectadas. (Dorland, 28a ed)
Descriptor Portuguese: Doença de Fox-Fordyce
Descriptor French: Fox Fordyce, maladie
Entry term(s): Apocrine Miliaria
Disease, Fox-Fordyce
Fox Fordyce Disease
Fox Fordyce Syndrome
Fox-Fordyce Syndrome
Miliaria, Apocrine
Syndrome, Fox-Fordyce
Tree number(s): C17.800.946.492.285
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005588
Scope note: Chronic pruritic disease, usually in women, characterized by small follicular papular eruptions in APOCRINE GLANDS areas. It is caused by obstruction and rupture of intraepidermal apocrine ducts.
Annotation: pruritic apocrine dis in women
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
Entry Version: FOX FORDYCE DIS
DeCS ID: 5723
Unique ID: D005588
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2010/06/25
Fox-Fordyce Disease - Preferred
Concept UI M0008797
Scope note Chronic pruritic disease, usually in women, characterized by small follicular papular eruptions in APOCRINE GLANDS areas. It is caused by obstruction and rupture of intraepidermal apocrine ducts.
Preferred term Fox-Fordyce Disease
Entry term(s) Apocrine Miliaria
Disease, Fox-Fordyce
Fox Fordyce Disease
Fox Fordyce Syndrome
Fox-Fordyce Syndrome
Miliaria, Apocrine
Syndrome, Fox-Fordyce



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