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[Pulmonary artery hypertension due to tumor micro-embolism]
G Mangiapan1, A Parrot, M Antoine
1Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital Tenon, Paris.
Revue Des Maladies Respiratoires
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
We report the case of a 37 years old woman with a past history of a chondrosarcoma who was admitted to hospital for acute pulmonary hypertension which proved rapidly fatal; autopsy confirmed that the etiology was tumour microemboli rising from a single cardiac metastases from her chondrosarcoma. The originality of this case report lies in the origin of the microemboli and the way in which they presented as a recurrence of the cancer.