Fatal Paraneoplastic Embolisms in Both Circulations in a Patient with Poorly Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumour
Figure 2
Pictures taken after autopsy of the right carotid bifurcation (a) with occluding thrombus in both branches. Please note the typical lines of Zahn at the arterial thrombus as a sign of continuing thrombus formation (arrow). The infrarenal aorta (b) shows multiple ulcerated arteriosclerotic plaques with mural thrombus luminal occlusion of the left common iliac artery (arrow).
