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MeSH Heading: Massive Hepatic Necrosis
Tree Number(s): C06.552.100.600; C06.552.308.500.750.500
Unique ID: D047508
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D047508
Scope Note: Extensive and rapid death of parenchymal cells in the LIVER, often due to exposure to toxic materials or drug-induced injury. It is characterized by a soft, flabby, yellow-brown wrinkled, and shrunken liver. It was called acute yellow atrophy.
Entry Term(s): Acute Yellow Atrophy; Acute Yellow Atrophy of Liver; Drug-induced Hepatic Necrosis; Fulminant Hepatitis; Hepatitis, Fulminant; Submassive Hepatic Necrosis
Previous Indexing: Liver Diseases (1968-2004); Necrosis (1968-2004)
Public MeSH Note: 2005; see LIVER DISEASES 1997-2004
History Note: 2005; use LIVER DISEASES 1997-2004
Date Established: 2005/01/01
Date of Entry: 2004/07/07
Revision Date: 2019/07/01

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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)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Massive Hepatic Necrosis MeSH Descriptor Data 2024