Case Reports
November 25, 2015
Vol. 80 No. 1 (2013): Cardiac series

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

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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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“Tamoxifen Treatment and Pulmunary Embolism: A Case Report and Literature Review”. 2015. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 80 (1). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2013.91.