Purpura in a patient with disseminated breast cancer: A rapidly progressive cancer-related thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1204-1207

  Spoormans, I ^a   Altintas, Sevilay ^a   Van den Brande, J ^a   Luijks, A ^a   Vermorken, J B ^a  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; EPIRUBICIN; STEROID; VINCRISTINE; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; ANKLE EDEMA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE MARROW METASTASIS; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DETERIORATION; DISSEMINATED CANCER; DRUG FEVER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYALGIA; PALLOR; PARESIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIMARY LATERAL SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TUMOR VOLUME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WEAKNESS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC;

EID: 44849143052     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: 15698041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdn160     Document Type: Article

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