Cerebral Abscess

Preferred Label : Cerebral Abscess;

NCIt synonyms : Brain Abscess;

NCIt definition : A bacterial, fungal, or parasitic abscess that develops in the cerebral hemispheres. Causes include skull trauma, middle ear infection, congenital heart disease, and frontal and ethmoid sinus infection.;

Details

Origin ID

C27030;

UMLS CUI

C1510428;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Intracranial abscess [ICD-11 Subcategory]
- neurological infection other [ICPC-2 Rubric]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Abscess of brain (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Brain abscess [PASCAL descriptor]
- Brain abscess [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Brain abscess [HPO term]
- Brain abscess NOS [MedDRA LLT]
- Cerebral abscess [MedDRA LLT]
- Cerebral abscess (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- brain abscess [Disease (Nov.)]
- brain abscess [MeSH concept]
- brain abscess [MeSH Descriptor]
- cerebral abscess [MeSH concept]
- cerebral abscess [SNOMED Notion]
Has associated anatomic sites
- Brain [NCIt concept]
- Central Nervous System [NCIt concept]
- Nervous System [NCIt concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Disease or Syndrome [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Cerebral abscess [MedDRA LLT]
- Cerebral abscess (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- cerebral abscess [MeSH concept]
- cerebral abscess [SNOMED Notion]

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