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MeSH Heading: Psoas Abscess
Tree Number(s): C01.830.025.700
Unique ID: D016659
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016659
Annotation: for coord read note on ABSCESS
Scope Note: Abscess of the PSOAS MUSCLES resulting usually from disease of the lumbar vertebrae, with the pus descending into the muscle sheath. The infection is most commonly tuberculous or staphylococcal.
Entry Term(s): Abscess, Psoas; Iliopsoas Abscess; Pyogenic Iliopsoas Abscess
Previous Indexing: Abscess (1968-1991); Muscular Diseases (1968-1991)
Public MeSH Note: 92
History Note: 92
Date Established: 1992/01/01
Date of Entry: 1991/02/11
Revision Date: 2019/06/17

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

transmission (TM)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Concept UI: M0025386
Scope Note: Abscess of the PSOAS MUSCLES resulting usually from disease of the lumbar vertebrae, with the pus descending into the muscle sheath. The infection is most commonly tuberculous or staphylococcal.
Terms: Psoas Abscess Preferred Term
Term UI T049895
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992); Abscess, Psoas
Term UI T049894
Date02/04/1991
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992); Iliopsoas Abscess
Term UI T469841
Date11/14/2001
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2003); Pyogenic Iliopsoas Abscess
Term UI T469842
Date11/14/2001
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2003)

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