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Urogenital Diseases > Male Urogenital Diseases > Urologic Diseases > Kidney Diseases > Kidney Papillary Necrosis

Preferred term

Kidney Papillary Necrosis  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Necrosis, Renal Medullary
  • Necrotizing Renal Papillitides
  • Necrotizing Renal Papillitis
  • Papillitides, Necrotizing Renal
  • Renal Medullary Necrosis
  • Renal Papillitides, Necrotizing
  • Renal Papillitis, Necrotizing

Scope note

  • A complication of kidney diseases characterized by cell death involving KIDNEY PAPILLA in the KIDNEY MEDULLA. Damages to this area may hinder the kidney to concentrate urine resulting in POLYURIA. Sloughed off necrotic tissue may block KIDNEY PELVIS or URETER. Necrosis of multiple renal papillae can lead to KIDNEY FAILURE.

History note

  • 67; was PYELONEPHRITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING 1963-66

In other languages

  • munuaisnystykuolio

    Finnish

  • munuaisen papillaarinen nekroosi
  • munuaisen papillanekroosi
  • munuaisen papillinekroosi
  • munuaisten papillaarinen nekroosi
  • munuaisten papillanekroosi
  • munuaisten papillinekroosi
  • necrosis papillaris
  • papillanekroosi
  • papillinekroosi
  • Pappilär njurnekros

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D007681

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