Cerebral infarction due to a spontaneous tumor embolus from lung cancer

Respiration. 1995;62(3):155-6. doi: 10.1159/000196412.

Abstract

A cerebral infarction of the left occipital lobe developed in a 65-year-old man with squamous cell carcinoma of the right lung. Neurological examinations and brain CT showed findings typical of ordinary infarction. Postmortem examination revealed a tumor embolus within the posterior cerebral artery. Such spontaneous tumor emboli large enough to obstruct a larger-sized artery are rare.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain / pathology
  • Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / pathology*
  • Cerebral Arteries / pathology
  • Cerebral Infarction / etiology*
  • Disease Progression
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Humans
  • Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis / complications*
  • Lung Neoplasms / complications*
  • Lung Neoplasms / pathology
  • Male
  • Neoplastic Cells, Circulating
  • Pulmonary Veins / pathology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed