Facial Drooping, Aphasia, and an Incidental Lung Mass in a Nonsmoker
UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of PathologyDepartment of Radiology
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy And Critical Care Medicine
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Journal ArticlePublication Date
2017-03-01
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BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter are atrial tachycardias associated with embolic strokes. To date, there have only been a few reports highlighting the incidence of these atrial tachycardias due to mechanical compression of myocardial structures and the pulmonary vasculature in certain mediastinal masses and cysts. CASE: We present a case of a 75-year-old gentleman who is a nonsmoker with a history of hypertension who presents with an acute embolic stroke due to atrial flutter likely from mechanical compression from an underlying squamous cell carcinoma of the lung. CONCLUSION: This case represents, to the best of our knowledge, a rare case of squamous cell carcinoma of the lung in a nonsmoker likely leading to mechanical compression and a resultant atrial tachycardia with an embolic stroke.Source
J Intensive Care Med. 2017 Mar;32(3):228-230. Epub 2016 Oct 26. Link to article on publisher's siteDOI
10.1177/0885066616676044Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/48108PubMed ID
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10.1177/0885066616676044