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Infections > Pelvic Infection > Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
... > Urogenital Diseases > Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications > Female Urogenital Diseases > Genital Diseases, Female > Adnexal Diseases > Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
Urogenital Diseases > Genital Diseases > Genital Diseases, Female > Adnexal Diseases > Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Preferred term

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Disease, Inflammatory Pelvic
  • Diseases, Inflammatory Pelvic
  • Inflammatory Disease, Pelvic
  • Inflammatory Pelvic Disease
  • Inflammatory Pelvic Diseases
  • Pelvic Disease, Inflammatory
  • Pelvic Diseases, Inflammatory

Note

  • female only: note category; "male adnexitis": index under GENITAL DISEASES, MALE or PELVIC INFECTION

Scope note

  • A spectrum of inflammation involving the female upper genital tract and the supporting tissues. It is usually caused by an ascending infection of organisms from the endocervix. Infection may be confined to the uterus (ENDOMETRITIS), the FALLOPIAN TUBES; (SALPINGITIS); the ovaries (OOPHORITIS), the supporting ligaments (PARAMETRITIS), or may involve several of the above uterine appendages. Such inflammation can lead to functional impairment and infertility.

History note

  • 2003 (1963)

In other languages

  • sisäsynnytintulehdus

    Finnish

  • adneksien tulehdus
  • adneksiitti
  • adneksitulehdus
  • adnexitis
  • infectio pelvis femininae
  • infectio pelvis femininae NAS
  • inflammatio pelvis femininae NAS
  • kohdun sivuelinten tulehdus
  • kohdun sivuelintulehdus
  • morbus inflammatorius organorum femininorum intrapelvinorum non specificatus
  • morbus inflammatorius pelvis femininae
  • naisen lantion määrittämätön tulehdussairaus
  • PID
  • sisäsynnyttimien tulehdus
  • sivuelinten tulehdus
  • sivuelintulehdus
  • tarkemmin määrittämätön naisen lantion infektio tai tulehdus
  • Bäckeninflammation

    Swedish

  • Adnexit

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000292

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