Bilateral massive bloody pleurisy complicated by angiosarcoma

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 125-128

  Moriya, Yukiko ^a   Sugawara, Tomonori ^a   Arai, Munefusa ^a   Tsuda, Yasunari ^a   Uchida, Koji ^a   Noguchi, Toshiyuki ^a   Arai, Tomio ^a   Takahashi, Hideki ^a  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiosarcoma; Hemoperitoneum; Hemothorax

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; TRANEXAMIC ACID; VIMENTIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

AGED; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER INFILTRATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMOPERITONEUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA CANCER; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURISY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SMALL INTESTINE CANCER; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UTERUS CARCINOMA;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; PLEURISY;

EID: 33846896140     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.6146     Document Type: Article

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