Fibrocartilagenous embolism: an unusual cause of spinal cord infarction.
A 14-year-old girl experienced sudden onset of weakness progressing rapidly to paralysis. She died 7 days later from a massive pulmonary thromboembolus. Autopsy revealed extensive infarction of the spinal cord with a fibrocartilaginous embolus of the corresponding segment of the anterior spinal artery.
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Office of the Medical Investigator State of New Mexico and the Department of Pathology of the University of New Mexico-School of Medicine, Albuquerque 87131, USA.
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Kornfeld
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D000293:Adolescent; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007238:Infarction / Q000473:pathology*; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000473:pathology*; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000098:blood supply*; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000473:pathology