CASE REPORTS SECTION   

International Angiology 2000 March;19(1):79-83

Copyright © 2001 EDIZIONI MINERVA MEDICA

language: English

Recurrent peripheral arterial embolism from pulmonary cancer. Case report and review of the literature

Xiromeritis N., Klonaris C., Papas S., Valsamis M., Bastounis E.

From the 1st Department of Surgery, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Periph­er­al arte­ri­al embo­lism aris­ing from a malig­nant tumour is an infre­quent man­i­fes­ta­tion of neo­plas­tic dis­ease and also a rare cause of acute arte­ri­al occlu­sion. A case of recur­rent arte­ri­al embo­lism of the lower extrem­ities due to a pri­mary lung can­cer is report­ed and the lit­er­a­ture on this topic is ­reviewed.