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[Pulmonary cancer and recurrent arterial and venous thromboses]
E Auvray1, G Chatte, M Perrin-Fayolle
1Service de pneumologie, Centre Hospitalier Lyon.
Revue De Pneumologie Clinique
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
Coagulation disorders frequently complicate cancer. We observed a patient with lung cancer who developed recurrent thromboembolism. Hypercoagulation was induced by tumor cells via different factors enhancing coagulation. Heparinotherapy, or in certain cases oral anticoagulants, are often ineffective.