Metastatic Pulmonary Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma: A case report and review of the literature

Pulmonary Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma is a rare and low grade tumor of endothelial origin found in the lungs. At onset patients are usually asymptomatic or present with non-specific symptoms. Chest imaging shows the presence of multiple, bilateral small nodules and diagnosis usually requires a...

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Autores principales: Mehta, Sidharth Rishi, Das, Arvind, Barnard, Nicola, Marcus, Alan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3920373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26029602
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2012.09.003
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author Mehta, Sidharth Rishi
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description Pulmonary Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma is a rare and low grade tumor of endothelial origin found in the lungs. At onset patients are usually asymptomatic or present with non-specific symptoms. Chest imaging shows the presence of multiple, bilateral small nodules and diagnosis usually requires a lung biopsy. At this time there is no standardized treatment regimen and the prognosis is variable.
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spelling pubmed-39203732014-10-15 Metastatic Pulmonary Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma: A case report and review of the literature Mehta, Sidharth Rishi Das, Arvind Barnard, Nicola Marcus, Alan Respir Med Case Rep Case Report Pulmonary Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma is a rare and low grade tumor of endothelial origin found in the lungs. At onset patients are usually asymptomatic or present with non-specific symptoms. Chest imaging shows the presence of multiple, bilateral small nodules and diagnosis usually requires a lung biopsy. At this time there is no standardized treatment regimen and the prognosis is variable. Elsevier 2012-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3920373/ /pubmed/26029602 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2012.09.003 Text en © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
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Metastatic Pulmonary Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma: A case report and review of the literature
title Metastatic Pulmonary Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma: A case report and review of the literature
title_full Metastatic Pulmonary Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma: A case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Metastatic Pulmonary Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma: A case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Metastatic Pulmonary Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma: A case report and review of the literature
title_short Metastatic Pulmonary Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma: A case report and review of the literature
title_sort metastatic pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma: a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3920373/
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