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MeSH Heading: Empyema
Tree Number(s): C01.830.305; C23.550.470.756.305
Unique ID: D004653
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004653
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specifics but empyema unspecified may be EMPYEMA, PLEURAL: check text; coordinate with precoordinated organ/disease term
Scope Note: Presence of pus in a hollow organ or body cavity.
See Also: Abscess
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2019/06/17

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)

transmission (TM)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Empyema MeSH Descriptor Data 2025