Title
Facial Drooping, Aphasia, and an Incidental Lung Mass in a Nonsmoker
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy And Critical Care Medicine; Department of Radiology; Department of Pathology
Publication Date
2017-03-01
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Critical Care | Neoplasms | Radiology
Abstract
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.
Keywords
atrial flutter, embolic stroke, squamous cell lung carcinoma
DOI of Published Version
10.1177/0885066616676044
Source
J Intensive Care Med. 2017 Mar;32(3):228-230. Epub 2016 Oct 26. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Journal of intensive care medicine
Related Resources
PubMed ID
27798316
Repository Citation
Lui JK, McIntosh LJ, Escobar Valle J, Stockl TJ, Summers S. (2017). Facial Drooping, Aphasia, and an Incidental Lung Mass in a Nonsmoker. Radiology Publications and Presentations. https://doi.org/10.1177/0885066616676044. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/radiology_pubs/212