| Literature DB >> 26175596 |
Kyoungkyg Bae1, Woon-Jung Kwon1, Seong Hoon Choi1, Jong Hwa Lee1, Hee Jeong Cha2.
Abstract
Pulmonary tumor embolism is commonly discovered at autopsy, but is rarely suspected ante-mortem. Microangiopathy is an uncommon and distinct form of simple tumor pulmonary embolism. Here, we present a 52-year-old male with tumor thrombotic microangiopathy and pulmonary infarction, which might have originated from intraductal papillary mucinous tumor of the pancreas. Multiple wedge-shaped consolidations were found initially and aggravated with cavitation. These CT features of pulmonary infarction were pathologically confirmed to result from pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy.Entities:
Keywords: Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm; Pulmonary embolism; Pulmonary infarction; Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy; Tumor embolism
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26175596 PMCID: PMC4499561 DOI: 10.3348/kjr.2015.16.4.936
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Korean J Radiol ISSN: 1229-6929 Impact factor: 3.500