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Acute myocardial infarction caused by coronary tumor thromboembolism: a rare primary manifestation of malignant tumor disease.

Buckendahl AC, Martens F, Scholman HJ, Denkert C, Dietel M, Weichert W

Institute of Pathology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany. anna.buckendahl@charite.de

Myocardial infarction in the context of malignant tumor disease is rare but well documented and can occur through various pathophysiological mechanisms. We report an unusual case of a patient with recurrent myocardial infarction due to coronary tumor thromboembolism as the first clinical manifestation of a previously unknown squamous cell carcinoma of the lung. The possible pitfalls leading to a wrong preliminary diagnosis in our case as well as the literature on myocardial infarction in patients with cancer were discussed.

Published 23 January 2006 in Hum Pathol, 37(2): 236-8.
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