Disseminated microvascular pulmonary tumor cell embolism: A rare cause of fulminant pulmonary hypertension

Onkologie

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 566-568

  Steiner, S ^a   Plehn, G ^a   Reinecke, P ^a   Cohnen, M ^a   Schwartzkopff, B ^a   Hennersdorf, M G ^a   Strauer, B E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pancreatic cancer; Pulmonary hypertension; Tumor cell embolism

Indexed keywords

ILOPROST; NITRATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG TUMOR; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MALE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TACHYCARDIA; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RARE DISEASES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 10844242819     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000081340     Document Type: Article

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