Cardiac tamponade as first clinical manifestation of small cell carcinoma |
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Authors: | C Abad T Romero G Ponce J Aguilar |
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Affiliation: | Servicio de Cirugía Cardio-Vascular, Hospital Nuestra Se?ora del Pin, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. |
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Abstract: | A 69 year old man was diagnosed of cardiac tamponade. At surgery a large hemopericardias was evacuated, cardiac and pericardial metastasis of an oat cell carcinoma was demonstrated. The patient died 4 weeks later. A review of the literature is done about patients with cardiac tamponade as the first manifestation of a neoplastic process. |
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