title: Malignant thymoma. A complicated triad of SVC syndrome, cardiac tamponade, and DIC.
abstract: A patient presented with multisystem disease due to a very aggressive malignant thymoma. The case was complicated by the triad of cardiac tamponade, superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome, and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). A review of the English literature reveals this to be a unique constellation of clinical symptoms and that DIC was heretofore unreported.
authors.affiliation: Cooper Hospital University Medical Center, Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine at Camden, NJ.
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Dib
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Friedman
authors.forename: H I
authors.initials: HI
authors.lastname: Khouli
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Gerber
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Weiss
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000209:etiology*; D004211:Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013479:Superior Vena Cava Syndrome / Q000209:etiology*; D013945:Thymoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology