Pulmonary Vein Thrombosis Associated with Metastatic Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review.

Maria MavromatiAnnick GerberGregor John

Published in: Case reports in pulmonology (2018)

Pulmonary vein thrombosis (PVT) mainly occurs following lung transplantation but cases associated with thoracic malignancy have also been described. We describe here the first case of PVT in an asymptomatic patient with metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma.

Keyphrases

pulmonary embolism
squamous cell carcinoma
small cell lung cancer
spinal cord
case report
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation