Spontaneous bleeding of an Abrikossoff's tumor - a case report

Abrikossoff tumors are a rare tumor entity. The complication of a hemothorax has not been described in the literature so far. A 24-year-old patient presented with repeated hemoptysis and right thoracic pain. The initial CT-scan revealed a solid tumor mass in the right lower bronchus. After further d...

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Autores principales: Honigmann, Philipp, Walz, Alexander, Bussmann, Christian, Lerf, Bruno
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2774303/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19860925
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-57
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author Honigmann, Philipp
Walz, Alexander
Bussmann, Christian
Lerf, Bruno
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description Abrikossoff tumors are a rare tumor entity. The complication of a hemothorax has not been described in the literature so far. A 24-year-old patient presented with repeated hemoptysis and right thoracic pain. The initial CT-scan revealed a solid tumor mass in the right lower bronchus. After further diagnostics, the patient was discharged and surgical intervention was planned. He was readmitted 4 days after discharge with a spontaneous hemothorax. After the right lower lobectomy and an uneventful course the patient recovered well.
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spelling pubmed-27743032009-11-07 Spontaneous bleeding of an Abrikossoff's tumor - a case report Honigmann, Philipp Walz, Alexander Bussmann, Christian Lerf, Bruno J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report Abrikossoff tumors are a rare tumor entity. The complication of a hemothorax has not been described in the literature so far. A 24-year-old patient presented with repeated hemoptysis and right thoracic pain. The initial CT-scan revealed a solid tumor mass in the right lower bronchus. After further diagnostics, the patient was discharged and surgical intervention was planned. He was readmitted 4 days after discharge with a spontaneous hemothorax. After the right lower lobectomy and an uneventful course the patient recovered well. BioMed Central 2009-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC2774303/ /pubmed/19860925 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-57 Text en Copyright © 2009 Honigmann et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Spontaneous bleeding of an Abrikossoff's tumor - a case report
title Spontaneous bleeding of an Abrikossoff's tumor - a case report
title_full Spontaneous bleeding of an Abrikossoff's tumor - a case report
title_fullStr Spontaneous bleeding of an Abrikossoff's tumor - a case report
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous bleeding of an Abrikossoff's tumor - a case report
title_short Spontaneous bleeding of an Abrikossoff's tumor - a case report
title_sort spontaneous bleeding of an abrikossoff's tumor - a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2774303/
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