[Extracardiac malignancy presenting with cardiac tamponade].
We describe a 65-year-old man with cardiac tamponade as the first manifestation of malignancy. Biochemical, bacteriological and cytological examinations of the pericardial fluid were not diagnostic. Abdominal CT showed a mass in the right adrenal and fine needle aspiration revealed metastatic carcinoma. The patient died 4 months later with the clinical and roentgenological picture of bronchogenic carcinoma.
Jarchowsky
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Medical Dept. B, Hillel Jaffe Medical Center, Hadera.
Shalitin
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Plavnik
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D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D000368:Aged; D002283:Carcinoma, Bronchogenic / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary*; D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male