Cytological examination of pericardial fluid using Shorr's stain can aid in the antemortem diagnosis of metastatic tumors of the heart and pericardium.
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May aid antemortem diagnosis of cardiac metastases via pericardial cytology; hypothesis-generating from single case and should not change practice.
F D McCANDLESS (1948) studied this question.
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