Cardiac Tamponade as an Initial Manifestation of Lung Carcinoma
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Background: Pericardial involvement, with subsequent effusion and cardiac tamponade, may be a metastatic manifestation of an advanced lung carcinoma. These neoplastic pericardial effusions are usually asymptomatic and often times being diagnosed at an autopsy. We report on a 44-year-old woman who presented with cardiac tamponade and further investigations revealed a metastasis from the lung cancer as a cause for her pericardial effusion. Symptomatic pericardial effusion as an initial manifestation of a metastatic lung carcinoma is extremely rare and there have been very few reports of pulmonary adenocarcinoma presenting as cardiac tamponade.
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