Population
1 38-year-old Caucasian male smoker presenting with dyspnoea secondary to a large pericardial and moderate…
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
approx 3 months
Authors
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Functional imaging may detect occult cardiac angiosarcoma after negative cytology/CT; hypothesis-generating and should not change practice.
In cases of unexplained bloody pericardial effusion with tamponade, early functional imaging should be considered to rule out malignancy even if initial cytology and anatomical imaging are negative.
Rajwani et al. (2015) studied this question.
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