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Preferred term

Thromboangiitis Obliterans  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Buerger Disease
  • Buerger's Disease
  • Buergers Disease
  • Disease, Buerger
  • Disease, Buerger's
  • Thromboangitis Obliterans

Scope note

  • A non-atherosclerotic, inflammatory thrombotic disease that commonly involves small and medium-sized arteries or veins in the extremities. It is characterized by occlusive THROMBOSIS and FIBROSIS in the vascular wall leading to digital and limb ISCHEMIA and ulcerations. Thromboangiitis obliterans is highly associated with tobacco smoking.

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • Buerger
  • Buergerin tauti
  • Bürger
  • Bürgerin tauti
  • endarteritis obliterans
  • morbus Bürger
  • thromboangiitis obliterans
  • thromboangitis obliterans
  • verisuonten tukkotulehdus
  • Swedish

  • Buergers sjukdom
  • Endangiitis obliterans

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013919

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