Open allenbaron opened 12 months ago
It looks like 'spinal tuberculosis' is not considered a CNS tuberculosis but instead a bone/joint tuberculosis. This arrangement is supported by:
That could possibly make it a child of 'skeletal tuberculosis' (DOID:1639).
Another potentially useful reference: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3184481/
When looking at ICD9, MeSH -- I look to see if the disease terms are words that were previously used in a publication, but are no longer in use, asking were the terms really representing different diseases. For this disease, I would add the additional xrefs mentioned above to 'CNS tuberculosis'
add spinal tuberculosis as a synonym for skeletal tuberculosis
'central nervous system tuberculosis' (DOID:1638) currently has xrefs to:
These should probably be replaced with:
Potential children