Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy from metastatic gallbladder carcinoma: An unusual cause of severe pulmonary hypertension

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 555-557

  Malani, Ashok K ^a   Gupta, Chakshu ^b   Kutty, Ahamed V P ^c   Betlej, Thomas ^c  

^a Heartland Health   (United States)

^b Heartland Regional Medical Center   (United States)

^c Riverside Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Gallbladder carcinoma; Pulmonary hypertension; Thrombotic microangiopathy; Tumor emboli

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG TUMOR; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARCINOMA, SIGNET RING CELL; DYSPNEA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33846839519     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-9232-z     Document Type: Article

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