Primary gastric cancer presenting with a metastatic embolus in the common carotid artery: a case report
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Although about 30% of gastric cancers have distant metastasis at the time of initial diagnosis, metastatic tumor embolus in the main blood vessels is not common, especially in the main artery. The report presents, for the first time, an extremely rare clinical ca...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2012-10-01
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Series: | World Journal of Surgical Oncology |
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Online Access: | http://www.wjso.com/content/10/1/229 |