Rare presentation of urothelial bladder carcinoma as cardiac tamponade
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Bladder carcinoma is the fourth most common cancer in men, however cardiac metastases from the bladder are exceedingly rare. There have been 5 documented cases of transitional cell carcinoma causing cardiac tamponade. There have been 3 documented cases of urothelial carcinoma presenting as cardiac tamponade with positive cytology.1e3 We will discuss a case in which pericardial effusion with tamponade was the initial presentation of the patient's transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder.
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