Status: current, Sufficiently defined by necessary conditions definition status (core metadata concept). Date: 31-Jan 2014. Module: SNOMED CT core
Descriptions:
Outbound Relationships | Type | Target | Active | Characteristic | Refinability | Group | Values |
Gangrene due to peripheral vascular disease | Is a | Gangrenous disorder | true | Inferred relationship | Existential restriction modifier (core metadata concept) | ||
Gangrene due to peripheral vascular disease | Associated morphology | Gangrene | true | Inferred relationship | Existential restriction modifier (core metadata concept) | 2 | |
Gangrene due to peripheral vascular disease | Due to | This concept is primitive because within clinical practice it is used in different contexts to refer to both arteries and veins of the periphery or exclusively of peripheral arteries and sometimes to describe just occlusive disease of the peripheral arteries. More detailed unambiguous concepts are available for these more specific interpretations. | true | Inferred relationship | Existential restriction modifier (core metadata concept) | 1 |
This concept is not in any reference sets