A Behçet's disease patient with intracardiac thrombus, pulmonary artery aneurysms complicating recurrent pulmonary thromboembolism

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Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 168-171

  Ernam, Dilek ^a,c   Atalay, Figen ^a,c   Alp, Aysun ^a,c   Hasanoǧlu, H Canan ^b,d  

^a Göǧüs Hastaliklari Kliniǧi ^*  (Turkey)

^b ATATURK TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c Ataturk Chest Disease and Chest Surgery Center   (Turkey)

^d Education Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Beh et's disease; Intracardiac thrombus; Pulmonary artery aneurysms; Pulmonary thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; RECURRENT DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANEURYSM; BEHCET SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33747032251     PISSN: 04941373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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