1. Subacute cor pulmonale due to microscopic pulmonary tumour cell embolization
- Author
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J. H. Christensen, H Mertz, P Lambert-Jensen, and O Nyvad
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Ovarian Neoplasms ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Lung Neoplasms ,Carcinosis ,Respiratory distress ,business.industry ,Respiratory disease ,Carcinoma ,Autopsy ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Neoplastic Cells, Circulating ,Pulmonary hypertension ,Pulmonary embolism ,Pulmonary heart disease ,Pulmonary Heart Disease ,Ovarian carcinoma ,Internal Medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Female ,business ,Pulmonary Embolism - Abstract
A case of a clinically occult ovarian carcinoma leading to subacute cor pulmonale in a 62-year-old woman is described. The patient was admitted to hospital with increasing respiratory distress. Physical examination and echocardiography showed signs of pulmonary hypertension. She died from circulatory failure. Autopsy revealed a bilateral ovarian carcinoma with diffuse carcinosis of the peritoneum. No gross evidence of pulmonary embolism was present, but microscopic investigation revealed tumour-related microangiopathic lesions causing the lethal pulmonary hypertension.
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- 1994