Emergency pericardial drainage followed by systemic chemotherapy can be an effective management strategy for patients presenting with cardiac tamponade due to carcinomatous pericarditis as the initial manifestation of breast cancer.
May support individualized management of rare tamponade from breast cancer; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
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