[Uterine cervical carcinoma and pericardial effusion].
A 64-year-olf woman has been treated by chemotherapy for a uterine cervical carcinoma with known pathological lymph nodes in the abdomen and in the thorax. She is admitted in our Intensive Care Unit for fever and cardiac tamponade attributed to a large pericardial effusion. No diagnostic could be concluded from the analysis of the liquid or the pericardial biopsy. Complementary investigations are performed and the differential diagnosis of pericardial effusion is discussed in the context of a neoplastic disease.
Vokaer
B
B
Unité de Soins Intensifs, Institut Jules Bordet, Bruxellex. bvokaer@ulb.ac.be
Machiels
J P
JP
Vansnick
F
F
Castaigne
C
C
Feoli
F
F
Dediste
A
A
Sculier
J P
JP
D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001706:Biopsy; D016190:Carboplatin / Q000008:administration & dosage; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D017239:Paclitaxel / Q000008:administration & dosage; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy
D016190:Carboplatin; D017239:Paclitaxel