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Descriptor English: Cauda Equina Syndrome
Descriptor Spanish: Síndrome de Cauda Equina
Descriptor síndrome de la cola de caballo
Entry term(s) síndromes de cauda equina
Scope note: Lesión compresiva (p. ej., compresión, herniación, inflamación, rotura o estenosis) que afecta a las raíces nerviosas de la CAUDA EQUINA, que controla la función vesical e intestinal. Algunos de los síntomas pueden ser disfunción neurológica vesical o intestinal, pérdida de sensibilidad sexual y alteración de la sensibilidad o parálisis en las extremidades inferiores.
Descriptor Portuguese: Síndrome da Cauda Equina
Descriptor French: Syndrome de la queue de cheval
Entry term(s): Cauda Equina Syndromes
Tree number(s): C10.668.829.550.350
C10.668.829.800.750.150
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000077684
Scope note: Compressive lesion affecting the nerve roots of the CAUDA EQUINA (e.g., compression, herniation, inflammation, rupture, or stenosis), which controls the function of the bladder and bowel. Symptoms may include neurological dysfunction of bladder or bowels, loss of sexual sensation and altered sensation or paralysis in the lower extremities.
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: 2019; see Polyradiculopathy 2010-2018
History Note: 2019; use Polyradiculopathy 2010-2018
DeCS ID: 57721
Unique ID: D000077684
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Date Established: 2019/01/01
Date of Entry: 2018/07/09
Revision Date: 2018/06/14
Cauda Equina Syndrome - Preferred
Concept UI M0336797
Scope note Compressive lesion affecting the nerve roots of the CAUDA EQUINA (e.g., compression, herniation, inflammation, rupture, or stenosis), which controls the function of the bladder and bowel. Symptoms may include neurological dysfunction of bladder or bowels, loss of sexual sensation and altered sensation or paralysis in the lower extremities.
Preferred term Cauda Equina Syndrome
Entry term(s) Cauda Equina Syndromes



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