Kidney Papillary Necrosis
"Kidney Papillary Necrosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A complication of kidney diseases characterized by cell death involving KIDNEY PAPILLA in the KIDNEY MEDULLA. Damages to this area may hinder the kidney to concentrate urine resulting in POLYURIA. Sloughed off necrotic tissue may block KIDNEY PELVIS or URETER. Necrosis of multiple renal papillae can lead to KIDNEY FAILURE.
| Descriptor ID |
D007681
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
C12.777.419.493 C13.351.968.419.493
|
| Concept/Terms |
Kidney Papillary Necrosis- Kidney Papillary Necrosis
- Necrosis, Kidney Papillary
- Papillary Necrosis, Kidney
- Renal Papillitis, Necrotizing
- Necrotizing Renal Papillitides
- Necrotizing Renal Papillitis
- Papillitides, Necrotizing Renal
- Renal Papillitides, Necrotizing
- Renal Medullary Necrosis
- Necrosis, Renal Medullary
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Kidney Papillary Necrosis".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Kidney Papillary Necrosis".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Kidney Papillary Necrosis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Kidney Papillary Necrosis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
![]()
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Kidney Papillary Necrosis" by people in Profiles.