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

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Salpingitis  

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Scope note

  • Inflammation of the uterine salpinx, the trumpet-shaped FALLOPIAN TUBES, usually caused by ascending infections of organisms from the lower reproductive tract. Salpingitis can lead to tubal scarring, hydrosalpinx, tubal occlusion, INFERTILITY, and ectopic pregnancy (PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC)

In other languages

  • salpingiitti

    Finnish

  • munajohdintulehdus
  • munajohtimen tulehdus
  • munanjohdintulehdus
  • munanjohtimen tulehdus
  • munatorven tulehdus
  • munatorvitulehdus
  • salpingitis
  • Äggledarinflammation

    Swedish

  • Salpingit

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D012488

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