title: A rare cause of recurrent stroke in childhood: left atrial rhabdomyosarcoma.
abstract: We present a case of recurrent stroke secondary to cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma. The detected prothrombotic mutations at the first attack had seemed to be the main cause, but the echocardiography performed at the recurrence revealed the actual underlying cause of stroke.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The aetiological investigation into childhood stroke should absolutely include echocardiography regardless of the presence of other risk factors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Division of Child Neurology, Ege University Medical School, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Gul
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Serdaroglu
authors.forename: Sanem
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yilmaz
authors.forename: Zulal
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ulger
authors.forename: Sule
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gökce
authors.forename: Hasan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tekgul
authors.forename: Sarenur
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gokben
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012008:Recurrence; D012208:Rhabdomyosarcoma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D020521:Stroke / Q000209:etiology*; D014463:Ultrasonography