Pulmonary micro-tumor emboli resulting in paradoxical emboli: a case report

Pulmonary tumor embolism (PTE) is a rare manifestation of cancer. It is characterized by the presence of tumor cell emboli in the pulmonary arterioles and capillaries leading to an elevation of pulmonary vascular resistance. The ante-mortem diagnosis is difficult. We report a case of PTE associated...

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Autores principales: Morin-Thibault, Louis-Vincent, Wiseman, Daniel, Fortin, Michelle, Couture, Christian, Provencher, Steeve
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5826013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29308711
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2045893218754853
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author Morin-Thibault, Louis-Vincent
Wiseman, Daniel
Fortin, Michelle
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Provencher, Steeve
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description Pulmonary tumor embolism (PTE) is a rare manifestation of cancer. It is characterized by the presence of tumor cell emboli in the pulmonary arterioles and capillaries leading to an elevation of pulmonary vascular resistance. The ante-mortem diagnosis is difficult. We report a case of PTE associated with recurrent breast cancer that presented with neurological symptoms due to paradoxical cerebral embolism.
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spelling pubmed-58260132018-03-06 Pulmonary micro-tumor emboli resulting in paradoxical emboli: a case report Morin-Thibault, Louis-Vincent Wiseman, Daniel Fortin, Michelle Couture, Christian Provencher, Steeve Pulm Circ Case Report Pulmonary tumor embolism (PTE) is a rare manifestation of cancer. It is characterized by the presence of tumor cell emboli in the pulmonary arterioles and capillaries leading to an elevation of pulmonary vascular resistance. The ante-mortem diagnosis is difficult. We report a case of PTE associated with recurrent breast cancer that presented with neurological symptoms due to paradoxical cerebral embolism. SAGE Publications 2018-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5826013/ /pubmed/29308711 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2045893218754853 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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