Highlights a rare presentation of primary metastatic lung adenocarcinoma as cardiac tamponade during pregnancy.
Consider lung adenocarcinoma in pregnant patients presenting with tamponade; this case extends the differential but remains hypothesis-generating.
Pericardial effusions are common in pregnancy and often remain asymptomatic. We present a case of cardiac tamponade in a young pregnant female unmasking a diagnosis of primary metastatic lung adenocarcinoma. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.).
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