[Malignant mesothelioma of the pericardium]. / Mesotelioma maligno del pericardio.
Medicina (B Aires)
; 54(1): 49-52, 1994.
Article
em Es
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| ID: mdl-7990686
Malignant mesothelioma is a tumor which occurs in one out of every 4,000 patients autopsied for malignant neoplasia. Pericardial location is the least frequently encountered, accounting for less than 2% of the total cardiac tumors. We are presenting here a patient in whom the tumor resulted in a syndrome of cardiac tamponade. It could not be diagnosed in the living patient in spite of having performed a subxiphoideal pericardic biopsy. The patient died suddenly, and the tumor was found during autopsy, infiltrating the right atrium and protruding into the cavity, involving the right coronary artery. This latter situation could have been responsible for the patient's death. Clinical and pathological findings are compared with those of 30 cases found in recent literature.
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Assunto principal:
Pericárdio
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Neoplasias Cardíacas
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Mesotelioma
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Middle aged
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
Medicina (B Aires)
Ano de publicação:
1994
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Argentina
País de publicação:
Argentina