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  • Title: Pulmonary embolism with myomatous erythrocytosis syndrome and extreme obesity.
    Author: Unosawa S, Hata M, Sezai A, Niino T, Yoshitake I, Minami K.
    Journal: Thorac Cardiovasc Surg; 2009 Aug; 57(5):313-4. PubMed ID: 19629899.
    Abstract:
    We here report a case of a 53-year-old woman requiring pulmonary embolectomy for acute massive pulmonary embolism caused by a huge uterine myoma compressing veins in the pelvis and extreme obesity. She was also diagnosed as having myomatous erythrocytosis syndrome, a rare disease associated with secondary polycythemia. The polycythemia improved after a hysterectomy which was performed after pulmonary embolectomy.
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