A rare case with primary undifferentiated carcinoma of pericardium.
A primary pericardial tumor is very rare. A 77-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with chief complaint of exertional dyspnea due to large amount of pericardial effusion. She was finally diagnosed as pericardial undifferentiated carcinoma without definite histopathologial, immunochemistry feature. Despite palliative radiation therapy, the patient died of multiple organ failure. The prognosis of primary pericardial undifferentiated carcinoma is known to be very poor, especially in old people.
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Maryknoll Medical Center, Busan, Korea.
Hyuk Yong
HY
Kwon
Kyoung Im
KI
Cho
Seong Man
SM
Kim
Hyeon Gook
HG
Lee
Chi Sung
CS
Hwang
Hyeon Jin
HJ
Kim
Ji Hyun
JH
Kang
Myung Joon
MJ
Kim
Kee-Taek
KT
Jang
Tae Ik
TI
Kim