Metastatic Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Presenting as Jugular Venous Thrombosis

Jugular venous thrombosis is unusual and is associated with central venous catheterisation, intravenous drug abuse and head and neck sepsis. It is rarely associated with malignancy. We report a case of metastatic carcinoma of unknown primary in a forty year old female which presented with jugular ve...

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Autores principales: Modayil, Prince Cheriyan, Panthakalam, Sathyan, Howlett, David C.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20069128
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/938907
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author Modayil, Prince Cheriyan
Panthakalam, Sathyan
Howlett, David C.
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description Jugular venous thrombosis is unusual and is associated with central venous catheterisation, intravenous drug abuse and head and neck sepsis. It is rarely associated with malignancy. We report a case of metastatic carcinoma of unknown primary in a forty year old female which presented with jugular venous thrombosis. The discussion includes investigation and treatment options for this condition.
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spelling pubmed-28041162010-01-12 Metastatic Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Presenting as Jugular Venous Thrombosis Modayil, Prince Cheriyan Panthakalam, Sathyan Howlett, David C. Case Rep Med Case Report Jugular venous thrombosis is unusual and is associated with central venous catheterisation, intravenous drug abuse and head and neck sepsis. It is rarely associated with malignancy. We report a case of metastatic carcinoma of unknown primary in a forty year old female which presented with jugular venous thrombosis. The discussion includes investigation and treatment options for this condition. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009 2010-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2804116/ /pubmed/20069128 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/938907 Text en Copyright © 2009 Prince Cheriyan Modayil et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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.
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Modayil, Prince Cheriyan
Panthakalam, Sathyan
Howlett, David C.
Metastatic Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Presenting as Jugular Venous Thrombosis
title Metastatic Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Presenting as Jugular Venous Thrombosis
title_full Metastatic Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Presenting as Jugular Venous Thrombosis
title_fullStr Metastatic Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Presenting as Jugular Venous Thrombosis
title_full_unstemmed Metastatic Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Presenting as Jugular Venous Thrombosis
title_short Metastatic Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Presenting as Jugular Venous Thrombosis
title_sort metastatic carcinoma of unknown primary presenting as jugular venous thrombosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20069128
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/938907
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