Malignant hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma with rapid progression and fatal outcome

Internal Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1149-1153

  Komatsu, Yoshimichi ^a   Koizumi, Tomonobu ^a   Yasuo, Masanori ^a   Urushihata, Kazuhisa ^a   Yamamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Hanaoka, Masayuki ^a   Kubo, Keishi ^a   Kawakami, Satoshi ^a   Honda, Takayuki ^a   Fujimoto, Keisaku ^a   Hachiya, Tsutomu ^b  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Suwa Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Disseminated intravascular coagulation; Hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma; Pulmonary metastasis; Vascular tumor

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; GABEXATE MESILATE; HEPARIN; SIVELESTAT; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE COURSE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DYSPNEA; FATALITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOSARCOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTENSIVE CARE; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FAILURE; LUNG EDEMA; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PLEURA EFFUSION; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA, EPITHELIOID; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953976580     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.3148     Document Type: Article

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