Fatal diffuse influenzal pneumonia: premortem diagnosis by lung biopsy.

the patient's syncopal attacks, but he had no further episodes after operation. Treatment of malignant cardiac mesothelioma has been unsuccessful in all but two instances. Our patient enjoyed normal activities for more than a year after operation, and Sagerman and co-workers1° have reported complete sterilization of a cardiac sarcoma by radiation therapy. One must conclude that early operation seems mandatory in any patient with diagnostic features which are suggestive of cardiac neoplasm.