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A case of stroke due to tumor emboli associated with metastatic cardiac liposarcoma
Mutsumi Mitomi1, Kazumi Kimura, Yasuyuki Iguchi
1Department of Neurology, Yokohama Sakae Kyosai Hospital, Japan. mitomin2005@yahoo.co.jp
Internal Medicine (Tokyo, Japan)
|July 16, 2011
Abstract:
Cardioembolic stroke due to tumor emboli is a rare complication of neoplasm. A patient with metastatic cardiac liposarcoma who suffered from embolic stroke is reported. Autopsy confirmed that the cardiac tumor was a metastatic liposarcoma from the retroperitoneum, and the cerebral vessel was occluded by tumor cells and fibrin clot.
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