Incidental pulmonary embolism in cancer patients: clinical characteristics and outcome &ndash; a comprehensive cancer center experience | Zendy

Hikmat AbdelRazeq | Zendy; Asem Mansour | Zendy; Yousef Ismael | Zendy

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Incidental pulmonary embolism in cancer patients: clinical characteristics and outcome – a comprehensive cancer center experience

Author(s) -

Hikmat AbdelRazeq,

Asem Mansour,

Yousef Ismael

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

vascular health and risk management

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.892

H-Index - 68

eISSN - 1178-2048

pISSN - 1176-6344

DOI - 10.2147/vhrm.s17947

Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary embolism , stage (stratigraphy) , cancer , lung cancer , chemotherapy , disease , radiation therapy , colorectal cancer , radiology , paleontology , biology

Cancer patients undergo routine imaging studies much more than others. The widespread use of the recently introduced multi-detector CT scanners has resulted in an increasing number of incidentally diagnosed pulmonary embolism (PE) in asymptomatic cancer patients. The significance and clinical outcome of such incidental PE is described.

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