title: [Cardiac tamponade as first clinical manifestation of small cell carcinoma].
abstract: A 69 year old man was diagnosed of cardiac tamponade. At surgery a large hemopericardias was evacuated, cardiac and pericardial metastasis of an oat cell carcinoma was demonstrated. The patient died 4 weeks later. A review of the literature is done about patients with cardiac tamponade as the first manifestation of a neoplastic process.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Cirugía Cardio-Vascular, Hospital Nuestra Señora del Pin, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Abad
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Romero
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ponce
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Aguilar
mesh_terms: D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000556:secondary*; D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000209:etiology*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged