Multiple thromboemboli associated to two occult tumors: A case mimicking catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome

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Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 405-408

  Muñoz Ortego, Juan ^a   Blanco Lopez, Luisa ^b   Carbonell Abello, Jordi ^a   Monfort Faure, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Servicio de Medicina Intensiva   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antiphospholipid antibodies; Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome; Multiple thromboemboli; Occult tumors

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; DAPTOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; HEPARIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY;

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ADULT; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CATASTROPHIC ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIPLE THROMBOEMBOLI; NEUTROPHILIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PROTHROMBIN TIME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTICOAGULANTS; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 79960641742     PISSN: 1297319X     EISSN: 17787254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbspin.2011.02.014     Document Type: Article

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