Fatal pulmonary embolus from ischemic necrosis of intracaval tumor thrombus: a case report.
Angioinfarction of renal tumors has been proposed as a preoperative adjunct and as palliative therapy. Most side effects of angioinfarction are transient and are well tolerated by the patient. We report a case of fatal pulmonary embolus resulting from migration of an intracaval tumor thrombus following renal arterial embolization.
Jennings
S B
SB
Department of Surgery, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City.
Austenfeld
M S
MS
Basham
K
K
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000009:adverse effects*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000209:etiology; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy; D008168:Lung / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology; D009336:Necrosis; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior