Pulmonary microvascular cytology for the diagnosis of pulmonary tumor embolism

Western Journal of Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-50

  Babar, Sardar Ijlal ^a   Sobonya, Richard E ^a   Snyder, Linda S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CARCINOMATOSIS; CASE REPORT; COR PULMONALE; CYTOLOGY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031975257     PISSN: 00930415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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