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Descriptor English: Keratoconus
Descriptor Spanish: Queratocono
Descriptor queratocono
Entry term(s) degeneración corneal marginal pelúcida
degeneración marginal pelúcida
queratoglobo
Scope note: Protrusión y adelgazamiento no inflamatorios y, por lo general, bilaterales de la CÓRNEA, con desplazamiento del ápice hacia abajo y en sentido nasal. Se encuentra con mayor frecuencia en la mujer durante la época de la pubertad. Dos ectasias corneales no inflamatorias estrechamente relacionadas con el queratocono son la degeneración marginal pelúcida y el queratoglobo.
Descriptor Portuguese: Ceratocone
Descriptor French: Kératocône
Entry term(s): Degeneration, Pellucid Marginal
Keratoglobus
Marginal Degeneration, Pellucid
Pellucid Marginal Corneal Degeneration
Pellucid Marginal Degeneration
Pellucid Marginal Degenerations
Tree number(s): C11.204.627
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007640
Scope note: A noninflammatory, usually bilateral protrusion and thinning of the CORNEA, the apex being displaced downward and nasally. It occurs most commonly in females at about puberty. Two closely related noninflammatory corneal ectasias are pellucid marginal degeneration and keratoglobus.
Annotation: cone-shaped protrusion of cornea
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: 7807
Unique ID: D007640
NLM Classification: WW 220
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2022/07/08
Keratoconus - Preferred
Concept UI M0011968
Scope note A noninflammatory, usually bilateral protrusion and thinning of the CORNEA, the apex being displaced downward and nasally. It occurs most commonly in females at about puberty. Two closely related noninflammatory corneal ectasias are pellucid marginal degeneration and keratoglobus.
Preferred term Keratoconus
Pellucid Marginal Degeneration - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000756489
Preferred term Pellucid Marginal Degeneration
Entry term(s) Degeneration, Pellucid Marginal
Marginal Degeneration, Pellucid
Pellucid Marginal Corneal Degeneration
Pellucid Marginal Degenerations
Keratoglobus - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000756490
Preferred term Keratoglobus



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