Highlights a rare presentation of colonic carcinoma as metastatic cardiac tamponade, which was successfully managed with surgery and systemic chemotherapy.
May support surgery plus chemotherapy for rare colonic carcinoma tamponade; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Metastatic cardiac tamponade was the presenting manifestation of a colonic carcinoma. The patient's condition improved after surgical treatment and shows no sign of recurrence of pericardial effusion after more than eight months of systemic chemotherapy. Metastatic pericardial effusions and their treatment are discussed.
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Raymond Kacenelenbogen (1984) studied this question.
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