Subacute cor pulmonale due to tumor embolism

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 420-422

  Nakamura, Hiroyuki ^a   Adachi, Hideki ^a   Sudoh, Akihiko ^a   Yagyu, Hisanaga ^a   Kishi, Koji ^a   Oh Ishi, Shuji ^a   Kusama, Hiroshi ^a   Hashimoto, Toshio ^b   Matsuoka, Takeshi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Mito Saiseikai General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carcinomatous lymphangitis; Pulmonary hypertension; Pulmonary tumor embolism; Subacute cor pulmonale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COR PULMONALE; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LYMPH VESSEL; METASTASIS; MICROSCOPY; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

AUTOPSY; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; PULMONARY HEART DISEASE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 3042661977     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.420     Document Type: Article

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