title: A case of stroke due to tumor emboli associated with metastatic cardiac liposarcoma.
abstract: Cardioembolic stroke due to tumor emboli is a rare complication of neoplasm. A patient with metastatic cardiac liposarcoma who suffered from embolic stroke is reported. Autopsy confirmed that the cardiac tumor was a metastatic liposarcoma from the retroperitoneum, and the cerebral vessel was occluded by tumor cells and fibrin clot.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Yokohama Sakae Kyosai Hospital, Japan. mitomin2005@yahoo.co.jp
authors.forename: Mutsumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mitomi
authors.forename: Kazumi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: Yasuyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Iguchi
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hayashida
authors.forename: Hirotake
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nishimura
authors.forename: Isao
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Irei
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Okawaki
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ikeda
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008080:Liposarcoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary*; D008297:Male; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating / Q000473:pathology*; D012186:Retroperitoneal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D020521:Stroke / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology