MALIGNANT CEREBROVASCULAR THROMBOEMBOLIZATION BY PHAECHROMOCYTAMA

Authors
RAGHAVAN R INCE PG WALLS TJ GHOLKAR A DARK JH FOSTER JB
Citation
R. Raghavan et al., MALIGNANT CEREBROVASCULAR THROMBOEMBOLIZATION BY PHAECHROMOCYTAMA, Clinical neuropathology, 14(2), 1995, pp. 69-71
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Neurosciences,Pathology
Journal title
Clinical neuropathology → ACNP
ISSN journal
07225091
Volume
14
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
69 - 71
Database
ISI
SICI code
0722-5091(1995)14:2<69:MCTBP>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
We describe an unusual case of malignant thromboembolization within th e aortic arch of a 56-year-old man who presented with a stroke. The un common source of this malignant embolus was an adrenal phaeochromocyto ma which had permeated the inferior vena cava, metastasized into the p leural cavity and colonized the intimal surfaces of the aortic arch an d carotid vessels. The relevant literature has been briefly reviewed.