Tamoxifen treatment and pulmunary embolism: a case report and literature review

Submitted: November 25, 2015
Accepted: November 25, 2015
Published: November 25, 2015
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Breast carcinoma is becoming a spread disease that needs a specif teraphy. Tamoxifen is the first line treatment in patients with positivity of expression of estrogen receptors. The risk of thromboembolism is high in patients treated with tamoxifene indipendent from the neoplastic disease. This work focuses the attention on tamoxifen mechanism of thrombosis.

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Zanini, Gregoriana, Benedetta Fontanella, Marco Racheli, Monica Bortolotti, and Gianfranco Pasini. 2015. “Tamoxifen Treatment and Pulmunary Embolism: A Case Report and Literature Review”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 80 (1). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2013.91.

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