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MeSH Heading: Biliary Tract Diseases
Tree Number(s): C06.130
Unique ID: D001660
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001660
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specifics; biliary empyema equals EMPYEMA and BILIARY TRACT DISEASES or if of gallbladder, EMPYEMA, GALLBLADDER see CHOLECYSTITIS; inflammatory disease equals CHOLECYSTITIS or CHOLANGITIS; calculi equals BILIARY CALCULI see GALLSTONES but consider also CHOLELITHIASIS
Scope Note: Diseases in any part of the BILIARY TRACT including the BILE DUCTS and the GALLBLADDER.
Entry Version: BILIARY TRACT DIS
See Also: Cholangiography
Public MeSH Note: 66
History Note: 66
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2013/07/09

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

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