The diagnostic challenge of pulmonary tumour thrombotic microangiopathy as a presentation for metastatic gastric cancer: A case report and review of the literature

BMC Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ho, Andrew L K ^a   Szulakowsi, Patryk ^a   Mohamid, Waria H S ^a  

^a MOUNT VERNON CANCER CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gastric adenocarcinoma; Metastatic complications; Progressive dyspnoea; Pulmonary tumour thrombotic microangiopathy

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM; CLARITHROMYCIN; DALTEPARIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE;

ADULT; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LOSS OF APPETITE; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDICAL HISTORY; NAUSEA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUTROPHILIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE USE; OUTPATIENT CARE; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PULMONARY TUMOR THROMBOTIC MICROANGIOPATHY; RESUSCITATION; SPIROMETRY; STEROID THERAPY; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ADENOCARCINOMA; COMPLICATION; FATALITY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; SECONDARY; STOMACH TUMOR; THROMBOTIC MICROANGIOPATHIES;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; THROMBOTIC MICROANGIOPATHIES;

EID: 84930646652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-015-1467-7     Document Type: Article

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