Pulmonary Tumor Thrombotic Microangiopathy from Metastatic Prostate Carcinoma

Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy is a rare but serious malignancy-related respiratory complication. The most common causative neoplasm is gastric adenocarcinoma. We report a case caused by metastatic prostate adenocarcinoma, diagnosed postmortem in a 58-year-old male. To our knowledge, thi...

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Autores principales: Nayyar, Dhruv, Muthiah, Kavitha, Hayward, Christopher S., Lim, Zerlene, Granger, Emily K., Nicholls, Mark, Glanville, Allan R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4302364/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25632366
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/286962
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author Nayyar, Dhruv
Muthiah, Kavitha
Hayward, Christopher S.
Lim, Zerlene
Granger, Emily K.
Nicholls, Mark
Glanville, Allan R.
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description Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy is a rare but serious malignancy-related respiratory complication. The most common causative neoplasm is gastric adenocarcinoma. We report a case caused by metastatic prostate adenocarcinoma, diagnosed postmortem in a 58-year-old male. To our knowledge, this is the second reported case from metastatic prostate adenocarcinoma.
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spelling pubmed-43023642015-01-28 Pulmonary Tumor Thrombotic Microangiopathy from Metastatic Prostate Carcinoma Nayyar, Dhruv Muthiah, Kavitha Hayward, Christopher S. Lim, Zerlene Granger, Emily K. Nicholls, Mark Glanville, Allan R. Case Rep Pulmonol Case Report Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy is a rare but serious malignancy-related respiratory complication. The most common causative neoplasm is gastric adenocarcinoma. We report a case caused by metastatic prostate adenocarcinoma, diagnosed postmortem in a 58-year-old male. To our knowledge, this is the second reported case from metastatic prostate adenocarcinoma. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4302364/ /pubmed/25632366 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/286962 Text en Copyright © 2015 Dhruv Nayyar 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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Nayyar, Dhruv
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Pulmonary Tumor Thrombotic Microangiopathy from Metastatic Prostate Carcinoma
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title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary Tumor Thrombotic Microangiopathy from Metastatic Prostate Carcinoma
title_short Pulmonary Tumor Thrombotic Microangiopathy from Metastatic Prostate Carcinoma
title_sort pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy from metastatic prostate carcinoma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4302364/
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