Pulmonary Tumor Thrombotic Microangiopathy from Metastatic Prostate Carcinoma

Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy is a rare but serious malignancy-related respiratory complication. The most common causative neoplasm is gastric adenocarcinoma. We report a case caused by metastatic prostate adenocarcinoma, diagnosed postmortem in a 58-year-old male. To our knowledge, thi...

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Main Authors: Dhruv Nayyar, Kavitha Muthiah, Christopher S. Hayward, Zerlene Lim, Emily K. Granger, Mark Nicholls, Allan R. Glanville
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Pulmonology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/286962