[Pulmonary embolism in children and adolescents].
We present a necropsy study of 25 children (age 0-15 years) and 7 adolescents (age 16-18 years) with the diagnosis of macroscopic pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE). PTE occurred along with a serious disease, e.g. tumour or general infection, and when the subjects had some of the following risk factors, e.g. immobilization, tumours, cardiovascular diseases, operations, obesity, septic state, peritonitis, cachexia and placement of central venous catheters.
Fingerlandův ústav patologie Lékarské fakulty UK a Fakultní nemocnice, Hradec Králové.
I
I
Kholová
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D012307:Risk Factors