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Hematologic/ Cerebrovascular: Cerebral
infarction
Patients with malignancies and
leukemia in particular are at risk to develop cerebral infarction.
Several mechanisms may be responsible, alone or in combination, for
stroke in this patient population. The major causes of stroke in cancer
patients are listed below in Table 4.
Imaging of stroke in the leukemic or cancer patient is no
different than in other patients, and no cases are included here. It is
important to keep in mind however, that the presentation may not be
straightforward, and other lesions such as infection and CNS leukemia
could present with a stroke-like syndrome. In addition, the patient
presenting with a clear-cut stroke must be carefully evaluated for any
causal lesion which might be attributable to the underlying leukemia.
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