Angiosarcoma of the lung with fatal pulmonary hemorrhage.

The American journal of medicine ·Vol. 74 ·No. 6 ·1983-06-00 ·Pages 1072-6

Spragg RG, Wolf PL, Haghighi P, Abraham JL, Astarita RW

Abstract

A patient with fatal pulmonary hemorrhage was found to have angiosarcoma of the lung at postmortem examination. This case, occurring in a man with a prior history of industrial exposure in South African copper mines, is the third well-described primary occurrence of this tumor in the lung.

MeSH Terms

Aged Copper Dust/adverse effects Hemangiosarcoma/complications,etiology,pathology Hemorrhage/etiology Humans Lung Diseases/etiology Lung Neoplasms/complications,etiology,pathology Male Mining Respiratory Insufficiency/etiology

Chemicals

Dust Copper

Authors & Affiliations

5 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID

Spragg R G

Wolf P L

Haghighi P

Abraham J L

Astarita R W

Article Info

Journal

The American journal of medicine

Abbr.

Am J Med

ISSN

0002-9343

DOI

10.1016/0002-9343(83)90821-5

Published

1983-06-00

Pages

1072-6

Language

English

Region

United States

NLM ID

0267200

Subset

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PubMed source DOI: 10.1016/0002-9343(83)90821-5 View journal details

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