Peripheral pulmonary embolism related to a thrombus of the inferior vena cava triggering fatal adrenal crisis in Sheehan's syndrome [1]

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 387-388

  Ishizu, Akihiro ^a   Shimizu, Chikara ^a   Tsuji, Takahiro ^a   Nagai, Sou ^a   Yoshiki, Takashi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; PROTEIN S 100; THYROID HORMONE;

ADRENAL CORTEX INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; AUTOPSY; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CASE REPORT; COMA; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOPITUITARISM; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LETTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; SHOCK; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADRENAL GLAND DISEASES; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 3242802234     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.51.387     Document Type: Letter

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