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Detection of impending pericardial tamponade during skeletal imaging
C M Engeler1, R P DuCret, V Ulstad
1University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinic, Division of Nuclear Medicine and Cardiology, Minneapolis 55455.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|July 1, 1989
Abstract:
Bone imaging using Tc-99m MDP was performed on a 68-year-old man with a newly diagnosed adenocarcinoma of the lung. The image unexpectedly showed increased activity in the heart area. Emergent echocardiography demonstrated impending pericardial tamponade. A malignant pericardial effusion was verified by pericardiocentesis.