A 21-year-old man became hemiplegic 36 hours after being assaulted on the neck and chest. A carotid angiogram showed middle cerebral artery branch occlusion. He died 5 days after the assault. Post mortem examination showed infarction of the brain. This infarction is attributed to an embolus that could have arisen either in the internal carotid artery or a tributary of the pulmonary vein.
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