Testicular microlithiasis

Preferred Label : Testicular microlithiasis;

Type : Phenotype or locus, molecular basis unknown;

Description : Testicular microlithiasis, the deposition of calcium phosphate microliths within the seminiferous tubules, has a population prevalence of 0.6 to 9% (Kim et al., 2003). Middleton et al. (2002) found that it was associated with a majority of primary testicular malignancies. Miller and Sidhu (2002) found that it was present in 1% of male idiopathic infertility cases.;

Prefixed ID : %610441;

Details

Origin ID

610441;

UMLS CUI

C1864873;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Testicular microlithiasis [HPO term]
- Testicular microlithiasis (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Testicular microlithiasis [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- testicular microlithiasis [MeSH concept]
- testicular microlithiasis [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
HPO term(s)
- Testicular microlithiasis [HPO term]
Semantic type(s)
- Disease or Syndrome [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Testicular microlithiasis [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Testicular microlithiasis [HPO term]
- Testicular microlithiasis (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- testicular microlithiasis [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- testicular microlithiasis [MeSH concept]

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