Chest discomfort in a patient with cancer.
JAAPA
; 28(6): 43-4, 466, 2015 Jun.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-25989434
Patients with cancer are at higher risk for venous thromboembolism than patients without cancer due to hypercoagulability associated with malignancy. This article describes a patient with metastatic renal cell carcinoma who had chest pain over several weeks caused by multiple pulmonary emboli.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pulmonary Embolism
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Carcinoma, Renal Cell
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Kidney Neoplasms
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Lung Neoplasms
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
Limits:
Adult
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
JAAPA
Journal subject:
MEDICINA
Year:
2015
Document type:
Article
Country of publication:
United States