title: Trousseau syndrome due to pleural mesothelioma.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Thrombosis involving a brain infarction frequently occurs in patients with a malignant tumor. Although nearly all types of tumor have been reported in association with a hypercoagulable state, pleural mesothelioma-associated Trousseau syndrome is extremely rare.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A 69-year-old female was admitted to our hospital with cough, sputum, and breathing difficulties. She was diagnosed as having a mesothelioma from a percutaneous pleural biopsy. Although there were no risk factors for atherosclerosis, brain infarctions showed frequent relapses, even under anticoagulant therapy, and there was a marked hypercoagulable state.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Attention should be paid to this syndrome when unexplained brain infarctions occur in patients with pleural mesothelioma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Sumitomo Hospital, Osaka, Japan. matsui-hideaki@sumitomo-hp.or.jp
authors.forename: Hideaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsui
authors.forename: Kazuto
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nishinaka
authors.forename: Masaya
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Oda
authors.forename: Tamotsu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kubori
authors.forename: Fukashi
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Udaka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D020520:Brain Infarction; D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008654:Mesothelioma / Q000150:complications*; D010997:Pleural Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology