Metastatic chondrosarcoma to the lung with extension into the left atrium via invasion of the pulmonary veins: Presentation as embolic cerebral infarction

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 338-341

  Woodring, John H ^a   Bognar, Benedek ^a   Van Wyk, Charl S ^a  

^a LEXINGTON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral arterial embolism; Left atrial tumor invasion; Metastatic chondrosarcoma; Pulmonary neoplasms, metastatic; Tumor invasion of pulmonary veins

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

PULMONARY VEINS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

DOXORUBICIN;

ADULT; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHONDROSARCOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BONE NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CHONDROSARCOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; PULMONARY VEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036741070     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-7071(02)00445-X     Document Type: Article

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