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Malignant and Benign Tumor-Induced Critical Limb Ischemia

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Ischemia of the extremities is commonly treated in clinical practice. Most such occurrences are related to primary vascular—especially arterial—disease. However, on occasion, one may encounter upper and lower limb ischemia due to neoplastic processes. These patients may have either acute, subacute, or chronic slowly progressive benign or malignant lesions effecting the limb circulation.

Acute processes are particularly seen with emboli from more central benign (such as endocardial myxomas), embolic aortic or other malignant disease, and surgical dissection of pulmonary carcinoma—especially those involving the atria. Chronic etiologic causes of arm or leg ischemia may originate from sarcomas, leukemia, therapeutic programs for such, and paraneoplastic syndromes.

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  1. Northwestern Medicine, At Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield, IL, 60190, USA

    Raymond A. Dieter Jr. MD, MS

  2. International College of Surgeons, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Glen Ellyn, IL, USA

    Raymond A. Dieter Jr. MD, MS

  3. Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cadence Hospital of Northwestern System, Winfield, IL, 60190, USA

    George B. Kuzycz MD

  4. Thoracic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Marcelo C. DaSilva MD

  5. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN, 37920, USA

    Raymond A. Dieter III MD

  6. Loyola University Medical Center, Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL, 60153, USA

    Anthony M. Joudi MD

  7. Internal Medicine, Past President of the Illinois State Medical Society, Lombard, IL, 60148, USA

    Morgan M. Meyer MD

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Dieter, R.A., Kuzycz, G.B., DaSilva, M.C., Dieter, R.A., Joudi, A.M., Meyer, M.M. (2017). Malignant and Benign Tumor-Induced Critical Limb Ischemia. In: Dieter, R., Dieter, Jr, R., Dieter, III, R., Nanjundappa, A. (eds) Critical Limb Ischemia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31991-9_29

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