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Report of a Case

HERBERT I. HARDER, M.D.; ALBERT F. BROWN, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1955;95(4):587-590.

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Cerebral embolism is one of the three common types of cerebral vascular accident (hemorrhage, thrombosis, embolism). All are acute in onset and severely damaging in their effects, and all offer a uniformly poor prognosis. Of these three, embolism must invariably be considered as the manifestation of an underlying disease rather than as a separate primary disease process; therefore therapy must include measures intended to alleviate the primary pathological process.

The enumeration of materials which may form emboli is an unending task and includes everything from bubbles ¹ to bullets.² The following outline is representative of the variety of cerebral emboli which have been reported in the literature:

1. Thrombi
   
   1. Septic
      
   2. Bland
      
   3. Fibrin
      
   
   
2. Tissue fragment emboli, originating within the victim's body
   
   1. Tumors
      
      1. Myxoma of heart 3
         
      2. Small secondary tumor emboli
         
      
      
   2. Atheromatous material
      
   3. Valvular vegetations and calcifications
      
   
   

Author Affiliations
Glendale, Calif.

Resident in Pathology, Glendale Sanitarium & Hospital (Dr. Harder); Associate Professor of Pathology, College of Medical Evangelists School of Medicine, and Pathologist, Glendale Sanitarium and Hospital (Dr. Brown).

Footnotes
Dr. Elwyn E. Stiles provided the clinical material cited.

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