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Four-year natural clinical course of pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma without therapy

Pulmonary epithelial hemangioendothelioma is a rare low to intermediate malignant vascular tumor originating from vascular endothelial cells. The therapy for this disease, if possible, is surgical resection. However, there is no standard treatment for patients with multiple unresectable lesions. We...

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Autores principales: Haro, Akira, Saitoh, Genkichi, Tamiya, Sadafumi, Nagashima, Akira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4511336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26273413
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1759-7714.12192
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author Haro, Akira
Saitoh, Genkichi
Tamiya, Sadafumi
Nagashima, Akira
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description Pulmonary epithelial hemangioendothelioma is a rare low to intermediate malignant vascular tumor originating from vascular endothelial cells. The therapy for this disease, if possible, is surgical resection. However, there is no standard treatment for patients with multiple unresectable lesions. We present the case of a 42-year-old woman treated with a natural clinical course of hemangioendothelioma for four years without therapy. The nodules have increased in number and size extremely slowly, and the patient is alive and asymptomatic four years after diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-45113362015-08-13 Four-year natural clinical course of pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma without therapy Haro, Akira Saitoh, Genkichi Tamiya, Sadafumi Nagashima, Akira Thorac Cancer Case Reports Pulmonary epithelial hemangioendothelioma is a rare low to intermediate malignant vascular tumor originating from vascular endothelial cells. The therapy for this disease, if possible, is surgical resection. However, there is no standard treatment for patients with multiple unresectable lesions. We present the case of a 42-year-old woman treated with a natural clinical course of hemangioendothelioma for four years without therapy. The nodules have increased in number and size extremely slowly, and the patient is alive and asymptomatic four years after diagnosis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2015-07 2015-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4511336/ /pubmed/26273413 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1759-7714.12192 Text en © 2014 The Authors. Thoracic Cancer published by Tianjin Lung Cancer Institute and Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Haro, Akira
Saitoh, Genkichi
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Nagashima, Akira
Four-year natural clinical course of pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma without therapy
title Four-year natural clinical course of pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma without therapy
title_full Four-year natural clinical course of pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma without therapy
title_fullStr Four-year natural clinical course of pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma without therapy
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title_short Four-year natural clinical course of pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma without therapy
title_sort four-year natural clinical course of pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma without therapy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4511336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26273413
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1759-7714.12192
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