Spiral computed tomography scans are more reliable but diagnosis is limited to emboli in larger vessels only. |
They concluded that this was a case of malignant transformation of cardiac myxoma, but it could also have been multiple tumor emboli. |
Clinical data obtained were death from thromboembolic causes, recurrent DVT or pulmonary emboli, and major bleeding episodes. |
The emboli lodge in lung capillaries where they obstruct pulmonary blood flow. |
The left middle cerebral artery was almost completely occluded by fungal emboli. |
The macroscopically apparent thrombosed vessels in case 3 contained tumor emboli and multiple foci of infarction. |