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Tetracycline treatment for malignant pericardial effusion
P Salamon1, S Berliner, A Shachner
1Department of Internal Medicine D, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel.
Medecine Interne
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
A 68-year-old woman developed malignant pericardial effusion seven years after mastectomy for adenocarcinoma. Daily evacuation of the pericardial fluid and tetracycline instillations brought about the complete disappearance of the pericardial effusion, lasting already for one year.