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Equipment and Supplies > Surgical Equipment > Pessaries

Preferred term

Pessaries  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Scope note

  • Devices worn in the vagina to provide support to displaced uterus or rectum. Pessaries are used in conditions such as UTERINE PROLAPSE; CYSTOCELE; or RECTOCELE.

In other languages

  • pessaarit

    Finnish

  • emätinkalvo
  • emätinkalvot
  • emätinrengas
  • emätinrenkaat
  • pessaari
  • Pessarer

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010570

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