Pleuropulmonary blastoma with a large embolic cerebral infarct.

Abstract

We report on a 3-year-old girl who developed a large embolic cerebral infarct 1 day after an uneventful thoracotomy to remove a large pleuropulmonary blastoma. The tumour had encased the heart and great vessels and ruptured into the left hemithorax. Pleuropulmonary blastoma is a rare, but unique, primary thoracic neoplasm in young children and, to our knowledge, the development of a secondary large embolic cerebral infarct is also uncommon and has not been reported in this tumour.

• Authors: Anne P A Tan Kendrick, Ganesh Krishnamurthy, V T Joseph
• Journal: Pediatric radiology (Pediatr Radiol) Vol. 33 Issue 7 Pg. 506-8 (Jul 2003) ISSN: 0301-0449 [Print] Germany
• PMID: 12712268 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article, Review)

Topics

• Cerebral Infarction (diagnosis, etiology)
• Child, Preschool
• Female
• Humans
• Intracranial Embolism (diagnosis, etiology)
• Lung Neoplasms (surgery)
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Postoperative Complications (diagnosis)
• Pulmonary Blastoma (surgery)
• Thoracotomy
• Tomography, X-Ray Computed