Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy induced by gastric carcinoma: Morphometric and immunohistochemical analysis of six autopsy cases

Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Okubo, Yoichiro ^a   Wakayama, Megumi ^a   Kitahara, Kanako ^a   Nemoto, Tetsuo ^a   Yokose, Tomoyuki ^b   Abe, Fumihito ^c   Hiruta, Nobuyuki ^a   Sasai, Daisuke ^a   Shinozaki, Minoru ^a   Nakayama, Haruo ^d   Ishiwatari, Takao ^a   Shibuya, Kazutoshi ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^c TOHO UNIVERSITY SAKURA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^d TOHO UNIVERSITY OHASHI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSTEOPONTIN; THROMBOPLASTIN; TUMOR MARKER; VASCULOTROPIN A; VEGFA PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PULMONARY ARTERY; STOMACH TUMOR; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TUMOR EMBOLISM; VASCULARIZATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING; OSTEOPONTIN; PULMONARY ARTERY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; THROMBOPLASTIN; THROMBOTIC MICROANGIOPATHIES; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 79953126561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1596-6-27     Document Type: Article

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