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Cardiac tamponade was identified as the initial clinical manifestation of pulmonary adenocarcinoma in five microscopically confirmed cases.
Cardiac tamponade can rarely present as the initial manifestation of pulmonary adenocarcinoma.
Consider malignancy in unexplained tamponade; case reports leave open incidence and diagnostic implications.
Neoplastic cardiac tamponade is extraordinary and dramatic as an initial presentation of cancer and not so unusual as a late complication. Five clinically and microscopically confirmed cases of cardiac tamponade as the first manifestation of pulmonary adenocarcinoma are reported along with a review of pertinent literature.
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Gilkey et al. (1985) studied this question. Cardiac tamponade was identified as the initial clinical manifestation of pulmonary adenocarcinoma in five microscopically confirmed cases.
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