[Anatomo-clinical conference: pulmonary cancer and cerebral vascular accident]

Rev Med Brux. 1998 Apr;19(2):77-81.
[Article in French]

Abstract

A patient with a lung adenocarcinoma died shortly after a first chemotherapy course from multifocal neurological lesions and severe cardiopathy. Autopsy has revealed the cause of these complications.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Clinical Conference
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma / complications*
  • Aged
  • Autopsy
  • Biopsy
  • Cause of Death
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Heart Diseases / diagnosis
  • Heart Diseases / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis / diagnosis
  • Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis / etiology*
  • Lung Neoplasms / complications*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Thrombosis / diagnosis
  • Thrombosis / etiology*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed