title: Pleuropulmonary blastoma with a large embolic cerebral infarct.
abstract: We report on a 3-year-old girl who developed a large embolic cerebral infarct 1 day after an uneventful thoracotomy to remove a large pleuropulmonary blastoma. The tumour had encased the heart and great vessels and ruptured into the left hemithorax. Pleuropulmonary blastoma is a rare, but unique, primary thoracic neoplasm in young children and, to our knowledge, the development of a secondary large embolic cerebral infarct is also uncommon and has not been reported in this tumour.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Kandang Kerbau Women's and Children's Hospital, 100 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 229899, Republic of Singapore. annetan@kkh.com.sg
authors.forename: Anne P A
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Tan Kendrick
authors.forename: Ganesh
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Krishnamurthy
authors.forename: V T
authors.initials: VT
authors.lastname: Joseph
mesh_terms: D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020766:Intracranial Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D018202:Pulmonary Blastoma / Q000601:surgery*; D013908:Thoracotomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed