title: Fibrocartilagenous embolism: an unusual cause of spinal cord infarction.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: 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.
authors.forename: O M
authors.initials: OM
authors.lastname: Yousef
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Appenzeller
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kornfeld
mesh_terms: 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