Fulminant thrombotic microangiopathy as a clinical presentation of an occult signet-ring cell carcinoma of the lung and misdiagnosed as idiopathic thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 581-

  Niscola, Pasquale ^a   Palmieri, Maria B ^a   Scaramucci, Laura ^a   Vischini, Gisella ^a   Giovannini, Marco ^a   Ferrannini, Michele ^a   Palumbo, Roberto ^a   Fratoni, Stefano ^a  

^a S EUGENIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BLOOD SMEAR; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; INTENSIVE CARE; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG CONGESTION; LUNG SIGNET RING CELL CARCINOMA; MALAISE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PLASMAPHERESIS; RESUSCITATION; RISK FACTOR; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; CARCINOMA, SIGNET RING CELL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FATALITY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; THROMBOTIC MICROANGIOPATHIES;

CARCINOMA, SIGNET RING CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; THROMBOTIC MICROANGIOPATHIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77954055076     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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