title: [Extracardiac malignancy presenting with cardiac tamponade].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Medical Dept. B, Hillel Jaffe Medical Center, Hadera.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jarchowsky
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shalitin
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Plavnik
mesh_terms: 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