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Descriptor English: Hydronephrosis
Descriptor Spanish: Hidronefrosis
Descriptor hidronefrosis
Scope note: Distensión de la pelvis y de los cálices renales por la orina, debida a una obstrucción del uréter, que se acompaña de atrofia del parénquima del órgano. (Dorland, 27 ed)
Descriptor Portuguese: Hidronefrose
Descriptor French: Hydronéphrose
Entry term(s): Hydronephroses
Tree number(s): C12.050.351.968.419.307
C12.200.777.419.307
C12.950.419.307
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006869
Scope note: Abnormal enlargement or swelling of a KIDNEY due to dilation of the KIDNEY CALICES and the KIDNEY PELVIS. It is often associated with obstruction of the URETER or chronic kidney diseases that prevents normal drainage of urine into the URINARY BLADDER.
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
DeCS ID: 7022
Unique ID: D006869
NLM Classification: WJ 300
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2006/07/05
Hydronephrosis - Preferred
Concept UI M0010730
Scope note Abnormal enlargement or swelling of a KIDNEY due to dilation of the KIDNEY CALICES and the KIDNEY PELVIS. It is often associated with obstruction of the URETER or chronic kidney diseases that prevents normal drainage of urine into the URINARY BLADDER.
Preferred term Hydronephrosis
Entry term(s) Hydronephroses



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