A 62-year-old woman with bilateral pleural effusions and pulmonary infiltrates caused by extramedullary hematopoiesis

Respiration

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 110-113

  Schwarz, C ^a   Bittner, R ^b   Kirsch, A ^d   Loddenkemper, C ^c   Mairinger, T ^a   Schonfeld N ^a   Serke, M ^a   Loddenkemper, R ^e  

^a HELIOS KLINIKUM EMIL VON BEHRING   (Germany)

^b Institut für Diagnostische und Interventionelle Radiologie   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Onkologische Schwerpunktpraxis   (Germany)

^e Deutsches Zentralkomitee Zur Bekampfung der Tuberkulose   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extramedullary hematopoiesis; Hydroxyurea; Medical thoracoscopy; Pleural effusion; Pleurodesis; Pleuroscopy

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYUREA; TALC; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTRAMEDULLARY HEMATOPOIESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG INFILTRATE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; HEMATOPOIESIS, EXTRAMEDULLARY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PRIMARY MYELOFIBROSIS; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 67749093495     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000150913     Document Type: Article

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