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Cardiac tamponade due to tuberculous mediastinal lymphadenitis
C Paredes1, F Del Campo, C Zamarron
1Department of Medicine, Hospital Virgen de la Concha, Zamora, Spain.
Tubercle
|September 1, 1990
Abstract:
Pneumopericardium is rare in tuberculous mediastinal lymphadenitis. Much rarer is the association of pneumopericardium with cardiac tamponade. The case is reported of a 29-year-old patient in whom tuberculous mediastinal lymphadenitis resulted in a fatal tension pneumopericardium.