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Malignant pericardial effusion associated with metastatic rectal cancer: case report
1Department of Oncology, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
Journal of Chemotherapy (Florence, Italy)
|October 1, 1989
Abstract:
Pericardial effusion caused by malignant disease is an uncommon disorder. We present a patient with rectal cancer who developed malignant pericardial effusion as the main site of relapse 18 months following surgery. We discuss the incidence and the therapy of this condition.