Population
12 patients with extracardiac malignant neoplasms and signs of severe systemic venous hypertension…
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Case_series
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Malignancy merits consideration in tamponade; case reports leave open prospective validation of cytologic yield.
Metastatic pericardial disease should be considered a frequent cause of massive pericardial effusion or cardiac tamponade, with cytologic examination of pericardial fluid offering a high diagnostic yield.
J. M. Lopez (1983) studied this question.
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