CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Vol 31, 111-113, Copyright
© 1981 by American Cancer Society
Intraoperative Systemic Tumor Embolism
Patil S. Shankar M.D.1
1 Professor and Head of the Department of Medicine at M. R. Medical College, Gulbarga, Karnataka State, India.
Systemic tumor embolism may rarely occur during pulmonary resection for bronchogenic carcinoma and result in fatality. A successful removal of a saddle embolus consisting of tumor tissue at the bifurcation of the aorta following lobectomy for squamous cell carcinoma is reported.