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Occult cardiac lymphoma presenting with cardiac tamponade
Douglas B Wilhite1, Robert L Quigley
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141, USA.
Texas Heart Institute Journal
|March 18, 2003
Abstract:
Subxiphoid pericardiostomy is the procedure of choice for treatment of a pericardial effusion with tamponade. We report a case in which this procedure not only failed to reveal the presence of an occult malignancy, but also resulted in a recurrent symptomatic effusion.