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Post-traumatic pericardial calcification
David Isaacs1, Paul Stark, Clinton Nichols
1VA San Diego Healthcare System, Radiology Service, La Jolla, CA 92161, USA.
Journal of Thoracic Imaging
|October 17, 2003
Abstract:
Trauma is a cause of calcific constrictive pericarditis, but less commonly may cause a localized mass. We report such a case in which the mass impinged on the right heart resulting in severe systemic venous stasis.