Open AccessIntraoperative systemic tumor embolism
Author(s) -
Shankar Patil S.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
ca: a cancer journal for clinicians
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 62.937
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1542-4863
pISSN - 0007-9235
DOI - 10.3322/canjclin.31.2.111
Subject(s) - medicine , embolus , embolism , aorta , pulmonary embolism , basal cell , bronchogenic carcinoma , radiology , carcinoma , cancer , pulmonary embolus , surgery , pathology
Systemic tumor embolism may rarely occur during pulmonary resection for bronchogenic carcinoma and result in fatality. A successful removal of a saddle embolus consisting of tumor tissue at the bifurcation of the aorta following lobectomy for squamous cell carcinoma is reported.