Internal Medicine
Online ISSN : 1349-7235
Print ISSN : 0918-2918
ISSN-L : 0918-2918
CASE REPORTS
A Case of Stroke due to Tumor Emboli Associated with Metastatic Cardiac Liposarcoma
Mutsumi MitomiKazumi KimuraYasuyuki IguchiAkihiro HayashidaHirotake NishimuraIsao IreiMakoto OkawakiHiroaki Ikeda
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2011 Volume 50 Issue 14 Pages 1489-1491

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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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