Open AccessParaneoplastic Thromboembolism and Thrombophilia: Significance in Visceral Medicine
Author(s) -
Christian Pfrepper
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
visceral medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.598
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 2297-475X
pISSN - 2297-4725
DOI - 10.1159/000509150
Subject(s) - medicine , cancer , thrombosis , thrombophilia , ambulatory , colorectal cancer , gastroenterology , oncology
Venous (VTE) and arterial thromboembolism (ATE) are frequent complications of cancer. Risk assessment models (RAM) for stratification of the thrombotic risk in patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancer have several limitations.