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MeSH Heading: Radial Neuropathy
Tree Number(s): C10.668.829.500.650
Unique ID: D020425
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D020425
Scope Note: Disease involving the RADIAL NERVE. Clinical features include weakness of elbow extension, elbow flexion, supination of the forearm, wrist and finger extension, and thumb abduction. Sensation may be impaired over regions of the dorsal forearm. Common sites of compression or traumatic injury include the AXILLA and radial groove of the HUMERUS.
Entry Term(s): Cheiralgia Paresthetica; Crutch Palsy; Crutch Paralysis; Lesion, Superficial Radial Nerve; Posterior Interosseous Nerve Syndrome; Radial Mononeuropathy; Radial Nerve Compression; Radial Nerve Diseases; Radial Nerve Entrapment; Radial Nerve Palsy; Radial Palsy; Radial Tunnel Syndrome; Saturday Night Palsy; Superficial Radial Nerve Lesion; Supinator Syndrome; Wartenberg Syndrome; Wrist-Drop
Previous Indexing: Peripheral Nervous System Diseases (1966-1999)
Public MeSH Note: 2000
History Note: 2000
Date Established: 2000/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/11/03
Revision Date: 2019/07/05

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)

Concept UI: M0328281
Scope Note: Disease involving the RADIAL NERVE. Clinical features include weakness of elbow extension, elbow flexion, supination of the forearm, wrist and finger extension, and thumb abduction. Sensation may be impaired over regions of the dorsal forearm. Common sites of compression or traumatic injury include the AXILLA and radial groove of the HUMERUS.
Terms: Radial Neuropathy Preferred Term
Term UI T358281
Date10/12/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2000); Radial Nerve Diseases
Term UI T370540
Date10/12/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2000); Radial Mononeuropathy
Term UI T000938886
Date01/10/2018
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2019); Supinator Syndrome
Term UI T000939880
Date01/30/2018
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2019)

Concept UI: M0336149
Terms: Crutch Palsy Preferred Term
Term UI T370541
Date10/12/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2000); Radial Nerve Palsy
Term UI T000939881
Date01/30/2018
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2019); Saturday Night Palsy
Term UI T370542
Date10/12/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2000); Crutch Paralysis
Term UI T000938880
Date01/10/2018
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2019); Radial Palsy
Term UI T000938890
Date01/10/2018
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2019)

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