Case Reports in Oncology (Aug 2016)

Thrombotic Microangiopathy Revealing Bone Metastases from an Ethmoid Sinus Carcinoma

  • Mony Chenda Morisse,
  • Loay Kontar,
  • Céline Bihan,
  • Mathieu Boone,
  • Emma Lachaier,
  • Dimitri Titeca-Beauport,
  • Julien Maizel,
  • Bruno Chauffert

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1159/000447998
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 2
pp. 470 – 473

Abstract

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Cancer-related thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) is a rare entity whose clinical and biological characteristics have been described in various tumors. Here we describe the first case of cancer-related TMA revealing diffuse bone metastases from an ethmoid sinus carcinoma.

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