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Descriptor English: Nervous System Neoplasms
Descriptor Spanish: Neoplasias del Sistema Nervioso
Descriptor neoplasias del sistema nervioso
Entry term(s) tumores del sistema nervioso
Scope note: Procesos neoplásicos benignos y malignos que se originan o afectan a componentes del sistema nervioso central, periférico o autónomo, nervios craneales, y meninges. En esta categoría se incluyen las neoplasias primarias y metastásicas del sistema nervioso.
Descriptor Portuguese: Neoplasias do Sistema Nervoso
Descriptor French: Tumeurs du système nerveux
Entry term(s): Neoplasm, Nervous System
Neoplasms, Nervous System
Nervous System Neoplasm
Nervous System Tumor
Nervous System Tumors
Tumor, Nervous System
Tumors of the Nervous System
Tumors, Nervous System
Tree number(s): C04.588.614
C10.551
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009423
Scope note: Benign and malignant neoplastic processes arising from or involving components of the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous systems, cranial nerves, and meninges. Included in this category are primary and metastatic nervous system neoplasms.
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specifics; do not confuse with NEOPLASMS, NERVOUS TISSUE (neoplasms composed of nerve tissue); coordinate with histological type of neoplasm
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
Previous Indexing: Brain Neoplasms (1966-1979)
Neoplasms (1966-1979)
Neoplasms, Experimental (1966-1979)
Nervous System Diseases (1966-1979)
Public MeSH Note: 80
History Note: 80; was NON MESH before 1980
Entry Version: NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPL
DeCS ID: 9616
Unique ID: D009423
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1980/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1999/11/03
Nervous System Neoplasms - Preferred
Concept UI M0014668
Scope note Benign and malignant neoplastic processes arising from or involving components of the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous systems, cranial nerves, and meninges. Included in this category are primary and metastatic nervous system neoplasms.
Preferred term Nervous System Neoplasms
Entry term(s) Neoplasm, Nervous System
Neoplasms, Nervous System
Nervous System Neoplasm
Nervous System Tumor
Nervous System Tumors
Tumor, Nervous System
Tumors of the Nervous System
Tumors, Nervous System



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