Pulmonary Tumour Embolism Complicating a Case of Leiomyosarcoma

Patient. A case of peripheral leiomyosarcoma presenting with features of pulmonary thromboembolism is described. Discussion. Persistence of the embolus despite triple-armed thrombolytic therapy and the presence of intravascular tumour invasion suggest the rare entity of pulmonary tumour embolism fro...

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Autores principales: Gentle, Stephen, Fisher, Cyril, Soni, Neil, Hill, Sue, Thomas, J. Meirion
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1998
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2395391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18521255
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13577149877984
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author Gentle, Stephen
Fisher, Cyril
Soni, Neil
Hill, Sue
Thomas, J. Meirion
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description Patient. A case of peripheral leiomyosarcoma presenting with features of pulmonary thromboembolism is described. Discussion. Persistence of the embolus despite triple-armed thrombolytic therapy and the presence of intravascular tumour invasion suggest the rare entity of pulmonary tumour embolism from a leiomyosarcoma.
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spelling pubmed-23953912008-06-02 Pulmonary Tumour Embolism Complicating a Case of Leiomyosarcoma Gentle, Stephen Fisher, Cyril Soni, Neil Hill, Sue Thomas, J. Meirion Sarcoma Research Article Patient. A case of peripheral leiomyosarcoma presenting with features of pulmonary thromboembolism is described. Discussion. Persistence of the embolus despite triple-armed thrombolytic therapy and the presence of intravascular tumour invasion suggest the rare entity of pulmonary tumour embolism from a leiomyosarcoma. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1998-12 /pmc/articles/PMC2395391/ /pubmed/18521255 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13577149877984 Text en Copyright © 1998 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Research Article
Gentle, Stephen
Fisher, Cyril
Soni, Neil
Hill, Sue
Thomas, J. Meirion
Pulmonary Tumour Embolism Complicating a Case of Leiomyosarcoma
title Pulmonary Tumour Embolism Complicating a Case of Leiomyosarcoma
title_full Pulmonary Tumour Embolism Complicating a Case of Leiomyosarcoma
title_fullStr Pulmonary Tumour Embolism Complicating a Case of Leiomyosarcoma
title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary Tumour Embolism Complicating a Case of Leiomyosarcoma
title_short Pulmonary Tumour Embolism Complicating a Case of Leiomyosarcoma
title_sort pulmonary tumour embolism complicating a case of leiomyosarcoma
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2395391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18521255
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13577149877984
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