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Case Reports
. 2020 Sep 8;192(36):E1037-E1039.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.200725.

Occult cancer diagnosed following acute ischemic stroke

Bastien Rioux  1 , Mark R Keezer  1 , Laura C Gioia  2
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Case Reports

Occult cancer diagnosed following acute ischemic stroke

Bastien Rioux et al. CMAJ. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Mark Keezer has received speaker and advisory fees for Eisai Co., Elsevier, Sunovion, Novartis and UCB, and unrestricted educational grants and research grants from UCB and Eisai Co. Laura Gioia has received speaker fees and advisory board honoraria from Bayer, BMS-Pfizer and Servier, and investigator-initiated funding from Servier. No other competing interests were declared.

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Figure 1:
Axial positron emission tomography–computed tomography scan of the abdomen of a 77-year-old woman with acute ischemic stroke, showing a large hypermetabolic mass involving the transverse colon (arrow).
Figure 2:
Figure 2:
Contrast-enhanced axial abdomen–pelvis computed tomography scan, showing a bulging mass involving the inner bladder wall (arrow).
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