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Case Reports
. 2010 Dec;46(12):658-9.
doi: 10.1016/j.arbres.2009.12.003. Epub 2010 Feb 8.

[Cardiac tamponade due to a pleuropericardial cyst with invasive lung cancer]

[Article in Spanish]
Patricia Mejía Lozano  1 , Enrique Pérez Ortiz, Carolina Puchaes Manchón
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Case Reports

[Cardiac tamponade due to a pleuropericardial cyst with invasive lung cancer]

[Article in Spanish]
Patricia Mejía Lozano et al. Arch Bronconeumol. 2010 Dec.

Abstract

Pericardial and pleuropericardial cysts are uncommon (7% of all mediastinal masses) and in the majority of cases are symptomatic and it is usually a casual finding. We present the case of a 62 year-old male with a left-sided pleuropericardial cyst which had the development of a cardiac tamponade; a rare finding in this type of disease. After it was surgically removed, the histopathology showed infiltration of the cyst by a poorly differentiated large cell carcinoma.

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