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Diagnostic
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Thromboembolie veineuse
Échographie Doppler
Tests sanguins
D-dimère
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Thromboembolie veineuse
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Effets secondaires
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Saignements
Prévention
Anticoagulants
Thromboembolie veineuse
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Embolie pulmonaire
Syndrome post-thrombotique
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Complications
Thromboembolie veineuse
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Embolie pulmonaire
Complications
Gestion
Suivi médical
Complications
Facteurs de risque
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Obésité
Antécédents familiaux
Âge
Risque
Thromboembolie veineuse
Grossesse
Risque
Thromboembolie veineuse
Antécédents
Risque
Thromboembolie veineuse
Tabagisme
Facteurs de risque
Thromboembolie veineuse
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Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Publications dans "Thromboembolisme veineux" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
CHU Brest, Département de Médecine Interne et Pneumologie, Brest, France; Univ_Brest, INSERM U1304-GETBO, CIC INSERM 1412, F29609 Brest; FCRIN INNOVTE network, Saint-Etienne, France. Electronic address: francis.couturaud@chu-brest.fr.
Publications dans "Thromboembolisme veineux" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Division of Internal Medicine and Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Jewish General Hospital/Lady Davis Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Publications dans "Thromboembolisme veineux" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Service d'angiologie et d'hémostase, HUG, 1211 Genève 14, et Faculté de médecine, Université de Genève, 1211 Genève 4.
Publications dans "Thromboembolisme veineux" :
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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Institute of Pharmacology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
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Clinic of Angiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Clinic of Angiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Department of Internal Medicine, Cantonal Hospital Baden, Baden, Switzerland.
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Clinic of Angiology, University Hospital Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
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Division of General Internal Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland.
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Department of Internal Medicine, Cantonal Hospital Fribourg, Villars-sur-Glâne, Switzerland.
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Department of Internal Medicine, Cantonal Hospital Fribourg, Villars-sur-Glâne, Switzerland.
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Department of Internal Medicine, Cantonal Hospital Obwalden, Sarnen, Switzerland.
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Affiliations :
Department of Internal Medicine, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Publications dans "Thromboembolisme veineux" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Internal Medicine, Regional Hospital Burgdorf, Burgdorf, Switzerland.
Publications dans "Thromboembolisme veineux" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Clinic of Angiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Publications dans "Thromboembolisme veineux" :
Metastasis on lymph nodes (LNs), the most common way of spread for primary tumor cells, is a sign of increased mortality. However, metastatic LNs are time-consuming and challenging to detect even for ...
Lymphatic drainage from subcostal nodes, along the costal groove, have not previously been characterized as sites for melanoma drainage and metastasis. This study reports a series of patients with sub...
Patients who presented to our institution between 2005 and 2020 with documented cutaneous melanoma and sentinel lymph node biopsy of a subcostal node (sentinel = S), or metastases to subcostal nodes l...
Six patients had subcostal sentinel nodes (SNs). Primary sites included the posterior trunk and lateral chest wall. Subcostal nodes were found under ribs 10-12. Subcostal SNs had at least one dimensio...
Melanoma can metastasize to subcostal lymph nodes and be found at the time of SN biopsy or identified at recurrence. These small nodes are fed by lymphatic channels that run in the neurovascular bundl...
Axillary reverse mapping (ARM) was introduced in 2007 to identify and selectively preserve upper-extremity lymphatics during axillary lymph node surgery to decrease the risk of lymphedema. The patient...
Patients undergoing ALND with or without immediate lymphatic reconstruction (ILR) were enrolled in a prospective trial at two institutional sites between April 2018 and Decemeber 2022. This report ana...
The inclusion criteria were met by 139 patients, who made up the study population (133 with breast cancer and 6 with other disease). Of the breast cancer patients, 99.2% were female, 35.3% (47/133) we...
In the contemporary patient population undergoing ALND, the positivity rate of the ARM LN was relatively high, suggesting that leaving ARM LNs in patients undergoing ALND may not be oncologically safe...
To explore the impact of lymph node diameter on the efficacy and safety of ultrasound-guided microwave ablation (MWA) in the treatment of cervical metastatic lymph nodes (CMLNs) from thyroid cancer....
A total of 32 patients with 58 CMLNs from thyroid cancer underwent ultrasound-guided MWA and were included in the retrospective study. Patients were divided into three groups based on the mean largest...
The technical success rate of this study was 100% (32/32), and they showed no major complications. Compared with measurements taken before MWA, the mean largest diameter and volume of CMLNs, as well a...
MWA is a safe and effective method for treating CMLNs, with advantages for localized nodes but limitations for larger ones. Careful consideration and personalized plans are advised, based on comprehen...
Metastasis in a nonsentinel lymph node (non-SLN) is an unfavorable independent prognostic factor in cutaneous melanoma (CM). Recent data did suggest potential value of completion lymph node dissection...
This retrospective study enrolled 656 cases of melanoma who underwent sentinel lymph node biopsy at Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center from 2009 to 2017. We identified 81 SLN + AM patients who un...
Ulceration, Clark level, number of deposits in the SLN (NumDep) and maximum size of deposits (MaxSize) are independent risk factors associated with non-SLN metastases. We developed a scoring system th...
A scoring system that included ulceration, Clark level, MaxSize, and NumDep is reliable and effective for predicting non-SLN metastasis in SLN-positive AM....
To investigate thresholds for lymph node yield (LNY), lymph node density (LND), and pN in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma in relation to previous findings in the literature....
Retrospective register-based study....
Copenhagen Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinoma database....
Appropriate thresholds for LNY, LND, and pN were determined by areas under the curve and subsequently subjected to multivariate analysis. Five-year overall survival and 3-year recurrence-free survival...
In total, 413 patients diagnosed with oral squamous cell carcinoma were included. In the pN0 cohort, no superior/prognostic LNY cutoff values were detected. In the pN+ cohort, areas under the curve de...
Increased nodal yield, decreased LND, and decreasing number of pN were associated with significantly improved survival outcomes. LNY might serve as a prognosticator of survival as well as a surgical q...
The imaging diagnosis of fracture-related infection is often challenging. The aim of this study was to evaluate the value of...
A total of 254 consecutive patients who underwent...
Patients were divided into two groups according to final diagnosis: the infected (N=197) and the non-infected group (N=57). The differences in the inguinal DLN-related parameters, including the long d...
Semiquantitative analysis (especially SUVmax) of the inguinal DLN in...
Lymph nodes open an immune-tolerant pathway for metastasis....
B cell follicles in the lymph node protect vaccines to enhance immune responses....
The survival benefit of inguinal lymph node dissection (ILND) vs no ILND in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the penis (SCCP) and the absence of lymph node invasion is unclear. We addressed th...
We identified lymph node negative SCCP patients who either underwent ILND (pN0) or clinical examination only (cN0). We tested for the effect of ILND vs no ILND on cancer-specific mortality (CSM) in Ka...
Of 2520 SCCP patients, 369 (15%) underwent ILND (pN0) vs 2151 (85%) did not (cN0). The pN0 vs cN0 distribution according to pT stages was as follows: 80 (7%) vs 1092 (93%) in pT1b, and 289 (21%) vs 10...
In pT2-3 stage SCCP, a significantly lower CSM was recorded in lymph node negative patients treated with ILND than in their clinical lymph node negative counterparts who did not undergo ILND....