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Preferred term

Urethral Neoplasms  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Neoplasms, Urethra
  • Neoplasms, Urethral
  • Neoplasm, Urethra
  • Neoplasm, Urethral
  • Urethral Neoplasm
  • Urethra Neoplasm
  • Urethra Neoplasms

Note

  • do not confuse with URETERAL NEOPLASMS, especially in Romance language: see note on "ureteral" & "urethral" under URETERAL DISEASES; coordinate IM with histological type of neoplasm (IM)

Scope note

  • Cancer or tumors of the URETHRA. Benign epithelial tumors of the urethra usually consist of squamous and transitional cells. Primary urethral carcinomas are rare and typically of squamous cells. Urethral carcinoma is the only urological malignancy that is more common in females than in males.

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • carcinoma urethrae
  • malign tumör i uretra
  • neoplasma malignum urethrae
  • uretrakasvaimet
  • uretran kasvaimet
  • uretran syöpä
  • uretran tuumorit
  • uretrasyöpä
  • uretratuumorit
  • virtsaputken syöpä
  • virtsaputken tuumorit
  • virtsaputkikasvaimet
  • virtsaputkisyöpä
  • virtsaputkituumorit
  • Swedish

  • Uretracancer
  • Uretratumörer
  • Urinrörscancer

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014523

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