A 29-year-old male with chest pain and haemoptysis

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1404-1407

  Young, E C ^a,c   Mills, N L ^a   Henriksen, P A ^a   Murchison, J T ^a   Salter, D M ^b   Hayward, R L ^a   Newby, D E ^a   Simpson, A J ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ATRIAL ANGIOSARCOMA; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; HEART FAILURE; HEMOPERICARDIUM; HEMOPTYSIS; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC VALVE; CHEST PAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEVER; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58849152760     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00016108     Document Type: Article

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