Acute Peripheral Arterial Tumorous Embolism after Lung Cancer Surgery

Abstract

Systemic tumor embolisms after pulmonary resections for malignancy are rare, but usually severe and sometimes fatal. Here, we report a case of a 70-year-old woman who underwent pulmonary resection for lung cancer and subsequently developed acute arterial occlusion of the lower extremities caused by a tumorous embolus.

Keywords

• embolectomy
• embolism
• femoral artery
• lung neoplasms