title: Vertebrobasilar insufficiency due to Tumoural emboli.
abstract: A case, which is clinically characterized by a subacute vertebrobasilar syndrome, is presented. The necropsy reveals multiple infarcts in brainstem, cerebellum and left cerebral hemisphere, due to tumoural emboli of a non-detected primary tumour. It is postulated that the latter has to originate in the lungs in order to produce this unique type of cerebral arterial embolism.
mesh_terms: D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D000311:Adrenal Glands / Q000473:pathology; D001488:Basilar Artery / Q000473:pathology; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000473:pathology*; D002196:Capillaries / Q000473:pathology; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D002542:Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis / Q000150:complications*; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D014711:Vertebral Artery / Q000473:pathology