[Rapidly progressive dementia caused by tumor microembolism in the central nervous system]. / Demencia de evolución rapidamente progresiva producida por microembolias tumorales en el sistema nervioso central.
Medicina (B Aires)
; 57(4): 447-50, 1997.
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Brain tumoral microembolism is a very unusual etiology of cerebral vascular disease in patients with cancer. The clinical course is characterized by diffuse encefalopathy with associated neurologic deficits. We report a 72-year-old male patient, who developed rapidly progressive dementia associated with diffuse myoclonic jerks, without neurologic deficit, whose brain biopsy showed microscopic emboli of adenocarcinoma of unknown origin in capillary vessels. We did not find metastasis in other organs. We suggest that this entity should be included in the differential diagnoses of the subacute dementias.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Neoplasias Encefálicas
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Demência
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Células Neoplásicas Circulantes
Limite:
Aged
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
Medicina (B Aires)
Ano de publicação:
1997
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Argentina