Highlights that cardiac tamponade can rarely be the initial manifestation of primary pericardial mesothelioma.
Consider mesothelioma in unexplained malignant tamponade; single case leaves open diagnostic and prognostic implications.
Although cardiac tamponade is a known complication of malignancy, it is rarely the initial manifestation. We report a 46-year-old male who presented with malignant cardiac tamponade 6 months prior to the definitive diagnosis of primary pericardial mesothelioma. A thorough literature search has not revealed a similar care.
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Stein et al. (1995) studied this question.