The surgical pathology of pulmonary infarcts:Ddiagnostic confusion with granulomatous disease, vasculitis, and neoplasia

Modern Pathology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 679-685

  Yousem, Samuel A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Infarct; Lung; Thromboemboli

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HEMOSIDERIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FOAM CELL; GIANT CELL; GRANULOMATOSIS; HEMOPTYSIS; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; LUNG INFARCTION; LUNG LESION; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MYOFIBROBLAST; PLEURISY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VASCULITIS; THORAX PAIN; THROMBOEMBOLISM; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, RESPIRATORY TRACT; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; PULMONARY INFARCTION; RISK FACTORS; VASCULITIS;

EID: 67349165104     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2009.20     Document Type: Article

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