Skin Test - CISMeF

Preferred Label : Skin Test;

NCIt definition : A preparation of an antigenic component of an infectious agent that is administered to a patient in order to determine whether previous exposure to the agent has occurred, and/or to assess the integrity of the patient's cellular immune system. Depending on the clinical situation, the appearance of a delayed (cellular) hypersensitivity response, which manifests as an area of induration and erythema at the injection site, i.e. a positive test result, may indicate previous exposure to a particular infectious agent. (NCI04);

Alternative definition : NCI-GLOSS: A test for an immune response to a compound by placing it on or under the skin.;

Codes from synonyms : CDR0000045881;

Details

Origin ID

C17137;

UMLS CUI

C0037296;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Skin challenge [LOINC Class]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Diagnostic skin and sensitization tests [ICD-10 Sub-category (who)]
- Hypersensitivity skin testing (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Skin test [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Skin test (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- skin test [Artificial nutrition thesaurus concept]
- skin test, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- skin tests [MeSH Descriptor]
- skin tests [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Diagnostic Procedure [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Hypersensitivity skin testing (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Skin test [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Skin test (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Special dermatological testing (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- skin test, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- skin tests [MeSH concept]
- skin tests [MeSH Descriptor]
concept_is_in_subset
- CTRP Biomarker Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CTRP Terminology [NCIt concept]

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