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Rodrigo Kraft Rovere1, Daniel Brito de Araujo, Daniel Rios Pinto Ribeiro
1Department of Oncology, Hospital Santo Antonio, Blumenau (SC), Brazil.
Abstract:
Pericardial effusion in a patient with a history of cancer should always prompt a hypothesis of malignant involvement. We report the case of a 66-year-old white woman presenting with pericardial effusion 25 years after a mastectomy for ductal breast carcinoma. This is one of the cases with the latest recurrence ever reported.
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