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Descriptor English: Linitis Plastica
Descriptor Spanish: Linitis Plástica
Descriptor linitis plástica
Scope note: Afección en la que la pared del estómago se hace más gruesa, plástica y pierde su capacidad de distensión. El estómago adopta la forma de "bota de cuero". Se ve con más frecuencia en el adenocarcinoma de estómago. El término se usa a menudo como sinónimo de adenocarcinoma difuso del estómago.
Descriptor Portuguese: Linite Plástica
Descriptor French: Linite plastique
Tree number(s): C04.557.470.200.025.095.410
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008039
Scope note: A condition where the stomach wall becomes thickened, rubbery and loses its ability to distend. The stomach assumes a "leather bottle" shape. It is most often seen in adenocarcinoma of the stomach. The term is often used synonymously with diffuse adenocarcinoma of the stomach.
Annotation: neoplastic; coordinate with STOMACH NEOPLASMS
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
BS blood supply
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CH chemistry
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
SC secondary
SU surgery
TH therapy
UL ultrastructure
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under CARCINOMA, SCIRRHOUS 1975-90
Online Note: search CARCINOMA, SCIRRHOUS 1966-74
History Note: 91(75); was see under CARCINOMA, SCIRRHOUS 1975-90
DeCS ID: 8214
Unique ID: D008039
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Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1999/11/03
Linitis Plastica - Preferred
Concept UI M0012529
Scope note A condition where the stomach wall becomes thickened, rubbery and loses its ability to distend. The stomach assumes a "leather bottle" shape. It is most often seen in adenocarcinoma of the stomach. The term is often used synonymously with diffuse adenocarcinoma of the stomach.
Preferred term Linitis Plastica



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