title: Multifocal strokes as the initial manifestation of metastatic tumors.
abstract: Patients with cancer are hypercoagulable and at a significant risk for ischemic stroke, but rarely present with stroke as the first manifestation of an underlying malignancy. We report on 2 patients with bihemispheric, multiterritorial infarctions in the absence of a cardioembolic source.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Institute of Wonkwang Medical Science, Wonkwang University School of Medicine, Iksan, Korea. hypppark@hanmail.net
authors.forename: Hyun-Young
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Hak-Seung
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Hyuk
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Yo-Sik
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Kwang-Ho
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Cho
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D012307:Risk Factors; D020521:Stroke / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D019851:Thrombophilia / Q000209:etiology