[Cardiac tamponade due to a pleuropericardial cyst with invasive lung cancer].
Pericardial and pleuropericardial cysts are uncommon (7% of all mediastinal masses) and in the majority of cases are symptomatic and it is usually a casual finding. We present the case of a 62 year-old male with a left-sided pleuropericardial cyst which had the development of a cardiac tamponade; a rare finding in this type of disease. After it was surgically removed, the histopathology showed infiltration of the cyst by a poorly differentiated large cell carcinoma.
Servicio de Neumología, Hospital Gutiérrez Ortega, Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real, Spain. patriciamejia@terra.es
Patricia
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Mejía Lozano
Enrique
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Pérez Ortiz
Carolina
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Puchaes Manchón
D018287:Carcinoma, Large Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000209:etiology*; D003560:Cysts / Q000150:complications*; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D010496:Pericardium; D010995:Pleural Diseases / Q000150:complications*