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Review
. 2013 Mar;80(1):42-4.
doi: 10.4081/monaldi.2013.91.

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

[Article in Italian]
Gregoriana Zanini  1 , Benedetta Fontanella, Marco Racheli, Monica Bortolotti, Gian Franco Pasini
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[Tamoxifen treatment and pulmunary embolism: a case report and literature review]

[Article in Italian]
Gregoriana Zanini et al. Monaldi Arch Chest Dis. 2013 Mar.
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Abstract

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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