National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

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Preferred Name

Extravasation

Synonyms

extravasation

Extravasation

Definitions

The leakage of body fluid or cells from the vascular system to the surrounding tissues. This process occurs either by force or as a result of a pathologic reaction (e.g., inflammation). This process may sometimes allow cancer cells to migrate from capillaries to adjacent tissues, initiating micro-metastases.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C48198

ALT_DEFINITION

The leakage of blood, lymph, or other fluid, such as an anticancer drug, from a blood vessel or tube into the tissue around it. It is also used to describe the movement of cells out of a blood vessel into tissue during inflammation or metastasis (the spread of cancer).

The leakage of body fluid or cells from the vascular system to the surrounding tissues. This process occurs either by force or as a result of a pathologic reaction (e.g., inflammation).

code

C48198

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C62596

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C54450

Contributing_Source

FDA

DEFINITION

The leakage of body fluid or cells from the vascular system to the surrounding tissues. This process occurs either by force or as a result of a pathologic reaction (e.g., inflammation). This process may sometimes allow cancer cells to migrate from capillaries to adjacent tissues, initiating micro-metastases.

FDA_Table

Patient Code (Appendix B)

FULL_SYN

extravasation

Extravasation

label

Extravasation

Legacy Concept Name

Extravasation

Preferred_Name

Extravasation

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C48198

Semantic_Type

Pathologic Function

UMLS_CUI

C0015376

xRef

IMDRF:E0504

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C16956

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