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pulmonary arterial occlusive disease
pulmonary arterial occlusive vascular disease
Friday 12 March 2004
Post-chemotherapy disorder
Etiology
chemotherapy
Synopsis
Small pulmonary arteries
diffuse medial hypertrophy
diffuse peripheral muscularization
very extensive concentric intimal fibrosis
focal eccentric fibrosis evolving from organizing thrombi
pulmonary veins normal
References
Bentur L, Cullinane C, Wilson P, Greenberg M, O’Brodovich H, Silver MM. Fatal pulmonary arterial occlusive vascular disease following chemotherapy in a 9-month-old infant. Hum Pathol. 1991 Dec;22(12):1295-8. PMID: 1748437
