Heithaus Robert Evans, Hitchcock Michael A, Guileyardo Joseph M
Departments of Radiology (Heithaus) and Pathology (Hitchcock, Guileyardo), Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.
Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2013 Jul;26(3):290-2. doi: 10.1080/08998280.2013.11928987.
Pulmonary tumor embolism syndrome is a rare phenomenon that can occur in patients who have an occult neoplasm that metastasizes. We describe a case of an elderly woman with an undiagnosed colon cancer who suffered from respiratory distress and compromised pulmonary blood flow from micrometastasis in the pulmonary arteries.