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Descriptor English: Polycystic Kidney Diseases
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermedades Renales Poliquísticas
Descriptor enfermedades renales poliquísticas
Entry term(s) nefropatías poliquísticas
riñón poliquístico
Scope note: Enfermedades que se caracterizan por la expansión progresiva de un gran número de QUISTES muy compactados en el interior del RIÑÓN. Incluyen enfermedades con herencia autosómica dominante y autosómica recesiva.
Descriptor Portuguese: Doenças Renais Policísticas
Descriptor French: Polykystoses rénales
Entry term(s): Disease, Polycystic Kidney
Disease, Polycystic Renal
Diseases, Polycystic Kidney
Diseases, Polycystic Renal
Kidney Disease, Polycystic
Kidney Diseases, Polycystic
Kidney, Polycystic
Kidneys, Polycystic
Polycystic Kidney
Polycystic Kidney Disease
Polycystic Kidneys
Polycystic Renal Disease
Polycystic Renal Diseases
Renal Disease, Polycystic
Renal Diseases, Polycystic
Tree number(s): C12.050.351.968.419.403.875
C12.200.777.419.403.875
C12.950.419.403.875
C16.131.077.717
C16.320.184.625
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007690
Scope note: Hereditary diseases that are characterized by the progressive expansion of a large number of tightly packed CYSTS within the KIDNEYS. They include diseases with autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive inheritance.
Annotation: KIDNEY, CYSTIC and MULTICYSTIC DYSPLASTIC KIDNEY are also available; prefer specifics
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
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: 1991; see POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY 1991-2000
History Note: 1991
Entry Version: POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DIS
DeCS ID: 7859
Unique ID: D007690
NLM Classification: WJ 358
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2017/12/14
Polycystic Kidney Diseases - Preferred
Concept UI M0012031
Scope note Hereditary diseases that are characterized by the progressive expansion of a large number of tightly packed CYSTS within the KIDNEYS. They include diseases with autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive inheritance.
Preferred term Polycystic Kidney Diseases
Entry term(s) Disease, Polycystic Kidney
Disease, Polycystic Renal
Diseases, Polycystic Kidney
Diseases, Polycystic Renal
Kidney Disease, Polycystic
Kidney Diseases, Polycystic
Polycystic Kidney Disease
Polycystic Renal Disease
Polycystic Renal Diseases
Renal Disease, Polycystic
Renal Diseases, Polycystic
Kidney, Polycystic - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0482872
Preferred term Kidney, Polycystic
Entry term(s) Kidneys, Polycystic
Polycystic Kidney
Polycystic Kidneys



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