Unusual Presentation of Multiple Myeloma

Malignancy is an independent risk factor of venous thromboembolism, although it is difficult to determine whether occult cancer is the cause of unprovoked VTE. About 25% of patients with VTE remain idiopathic. Here, the authors report the case of a 63-year-old woman with a history of unprovoked VTE...

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Autores principales: Jeon, Jeong Suk, Lee, Sang Yeoup, Choi, Eun Jeong, Lim, Hyun Ju
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8997321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30058642
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author Jeon, Jeong Suk
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description Malignancy is an independent risk factor of venous thromboembolism, although it is difficult to determine whether occult cancer is the cause of unprovoked VTE. About 25% of patients with VTE remain idiopathic. Here, the authors report the case of a 63-year-old woman with a history of unprovoked VTE some 10 months previously who presented with recurrent cough and dyspnea of 6 months duration and was finally diagnosed to have multiple myeloma.
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spelling pubmed-89973212022-05-06 Unusual Presentation of Multiple Myeloma Jeon, Jeong Suk Lee, Sang Yeoup Choi, Eun Jeong Lim, Hyun Ju JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc Case Report Malignancy is an independent risk factor of venous thromboembolism, although it is difficult to determine whether occult cancer is the cause of unprovoked VTE. About 25% of patients with VTE remain idiopathic. Here, the authors report the case of a 63-year-old woman with a history of unprovoked VTE some 10 months previously who presented with recurrent cough and dyspnea of 6 months duration and was finally diagnosed to have multiple myeloma. Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2018 2018-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8997321/ /pubmed/30058642 Text en Journal of the Nepal Medical Association https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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