Extensive arterial and venous thrombo-embolism with chemotherapy for testicular cancer: A case report

Cases Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Batra, Ramesh ^a   Davies, Jonathan N ^a   Wheatley, Duncan ^a  

^a ROYAL CORNWALL HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; HEPARIN; TUMOR MARKER; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGITATION; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CAROTID ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBOLECTOMY; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; EMERGENCY WARD; ENCEPHALITIS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NON SEMINOMATOUS GERMINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORCHIECTOMY; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PUPIL; REHABILITATION CARE; SEIZURE; SENSATION; SPEECH; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOEMBOLECTOMY; WEAKNESS;

EID: 77953370942     PISSN: 17571626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-1626-2-9082     Document Type: Article

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