TUBERCULOUS PERICARDIAL EFFUSION
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Tuberculous Pericardial Effusion.
Tuberculous pericardial effusion is not common; and so the case described is of interest on account of the patient's age, the frequency with which the pericardial effusion required tapping, the relative absence of symptoms during most of the illness, and the stages through which the case passed from gross effusion to relative dryness at autopsy with only about 2 oz. of fluid in a greatly thicke...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 1943
ISSN: 1355-6037
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.5.1.19