TY - JOUR T1 - Respiratory failure in a cancer patient: pulmonary thrombotic microangiopathy JF - Clinical Medicine JO - Clin Med SP - 430 LP - 432 DO - 10.7861/clinmed.2020-0102 VL - 20 IS - 4 AU - Robert M Venn AU - Emma Parkes AU - Anurag Joshi AU - Edward JD Caple AU - Helen E Davies Y1 - 2020/07/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/20/4/430.abstract N2 - The hypoxic patient with a normal chest X-ray can be a diagnostic challenge. This case illustrates the rational diagnostic process and describes a relatively rare but important complication of cancer metastasis. Thrombotic microangiopathy, like lymphangitis carcinomatosa, may cause respiratory failure and is a poor prognostic finding. However, unlike lymphangitis carcinomatosa, it may not have specific findings on cross-sectional imaging. ER -