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Cor pulmonale due to embolization of metastatic chondrosarcoma
K Hayashida1, T Nishimura, T Uehara
1Department of Diagnostic Radiology, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan.
Heart and Vessels
|January 1, 1987
Abstract:
A 25-year-old woman with acute dyspnea was found to have nodular shadows in a chest X-ray film. Multiple defects in a perfusion scan indicated pulmonary embolization. The cause of acute cor pulmonale was extensive metastatic embolization from chondrosarcoma of the calf. Embolization by metastasis as a rare occurrence resulting in acute cor pulmonale should be considered in patients with a malignant tumor.