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Acute aortic occlusion due to tumor embolism in a patient with lung malignancy

OBJECTIVES: Acute lower limb ischemia caused by tumor embolization is rare, despite the fact that cancer is a common cause of hypercoagulability predisposing to venous thrombosis. Arterial embolization is mostly associated with intracardiac tumors while lung malignancies are the second most common c...

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Autores principales: Lioudaki, Stella, Kontopodis, Nikolaos, Palioudakis, Stefanos, Koutsopoulos, Anastasios V, Drositis, Ioannis, Ioannou, Christos V
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5521335/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28781880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X17720627