Trousseau’s Syndrome Caused by Bladder Cancer

Hiroyuki Ueno¹ and Youichi Yanagawa^2,

¹Department of Emergency Medicine, Numazu City Hospital, Numazu, Japan

²Department of Acute Critical Care Medicine, Juntendo Shizuoka Hospital, Izunokuni, Japan

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Hiroyuki Ueno and Youichi Yanagawa. Trousseau’s Syndrome Caused by Bladder Cancer. American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2021; 9(12):722-724. doi: 10.12691/AJMCR-9-12-16

Abstract

An 82-year-old woman was admitted due to disturbance of consciousness. Six months previously, she had been diagnosed with nested variant of urothelial carcinoma. Magnetic resonance imaging showed multiple bilateral small acute cerebral infarctions, corresponding to Trousseau’s syndrome. Best supportive care was chosen and she finally died. This is the sixth case of Trousseau’s syndrome induced by bladder carcinoma and the first case of Trousseau’s syndrome in a patient with nested variant of urothelial carcinoma. This unique case adds one more cause to the list of documented etiologies of Trousseau’s syndrome.

Keywords

bladder cancer, multiple cerebral infarctions, Trousseau’s syndrome, nested variant of urothelial carcinoma

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