[A rare clinical case: myocardial infarction caused by coronary artery occlusion by cancer cells]

Medicina (Kaunas). 2002;38(6):631-6.
[Article in Lithuanian]

Abstract

Rare clinical case of myocardial infarction, conditioned by neoplasmal obturation of coronary artery, is presented in the article. Primary nidus of the neoplasmal growth was in 3 and 4 segments of the lung. Tumor penetrated pleura, pericardium, epicardium and infiltrated wall of the circumflex branch and formed neoplasmal thrombus.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Autopsy
  • Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / pathology*
  • Coronary Angiography
  • Coronary Thrombosis / complications*
  • Coronary Thrombosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Coronary Thrombosis / etiology*
  • Coronary Thrombosis / pathology
  • Coronary Vessels / pathology*
  • Heart Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Heart Ventricles / pathology
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Male
  • Myocardial Infarction / diagnostic imaging
  • Myocardial Infarction / etiology*
  • Myocardial Infarction / pathology
  • Myocardium / pathology
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness