PARADOXICAL CEREBRAL EMBOLISM ORIGINATING FROM THROMBUS IN TUMOUR VEINS AS PRESENTING MANIFESTATION OF RETROPERITONEAL UPOSARCOMA

Abstract

SUMMARYThe coincidence of pulmonary and systemic emboli suggests paradoxical embolism. We present the case of a young man in whom a blood clot travelled from the veins in a retroperitoneal liposarcoma via a patent foramen ovalis to the systemic arterial circulation. Young patients with embolic disease but no obvious source of thrombus may have underlying neoplastic disease.Venous thrombosis is a frequent complication of neoplastic disease. Arterial embolism associated with neoplasm is, however, not widely recognised.