Multifocal strokes as the initial manifestation of metastatic tumors.
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.
Park
Hyun-Young
HY
Department of Neurology, Institute of Wonkwang Medical Science, Wonkwang University School of Medicine, Iksan, Korea. hypppark@hanmail.net
Lee
Hak-Seung
HS
Chang
Hyuk
H
Kim
Yo-Sik
YS
Cho
Kwang-Ho
KH
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