Donor cerebral tissue pulmonary emboli in a functioning transplanted lung

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 504-507

  Simonetti, Vincent A ^a   Basha, Michael A ^a   Allenspach, Lisa ^a   Klosterman, Kathleen G ^a   Nakhleh, Raouf ^a   Higgins, Robert S D ^a,b  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral tissue pulmonary embolism; DIC; Lung transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN TISSUE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0031754244     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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