Hypercalcemia-leukocytosis syndrome in a patient with cavitating squamous cell carcinoma of the lung

Cases Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Burzyantseva, Olga ^a   Dharmasena, Sanath ^a   Jayawardena, Suriya ^a   Rupanagudi, Vijay A ^a   Krishnan, Padmanabhan ^a  

^a State University of New York Health Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERCALCEMIA; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; SYNDROME DELINEATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953421098     PISSN: 17571626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-1626-2-108     Document Type: Article

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