National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

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Preferred Name

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty

Synonyms

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty

PTCA

Definitions

A procedure to open an occluded coronary artery, performed by percutaneous introduction of a catheter into a peripheral (usually femoral) artery which is directed in a retrograde fashion to reach the diseased coronary artery.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C38078

code

C38078

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C158036

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C156952

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C158520

Contributing_Source

CPTAC

DEFINITION

A procedure to open an occluded coronary artery, performed by percutaneous introduction of a catheter into a peripheral (usually femoral) artery which is directed in a retrograde fashion to reach the diseased coronary artery.

FULL_SYN

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty

PTCA

label

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty

Legacy Concept Name

Percutaneous_Transluminal_Coronary_Angioplasty

Preferred_Name

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C38078

Semantic_Type

Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure

UMLS_CUI

C0002997

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C99521

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C51999

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