Key result
Two cases of loculated interlobar effusion associated with pericarditis were reported, including a 25-year-old woman with a history of exertional dyspnea and irregular fever.
Case Report (n=2)
This report describes two cases of loculated interlobar effusion associated with pericarditis, adding to the literature on vanishing tumors of the lung.
Alerts clinicians to interlobar effusions in pericarditis; extends vanishing tumor literature but remains hypothesis-generating.
Several reports of loculated pleural effusion due to congestive heart failure or the vanishing tumor of the lung have appeared in the literature. From a review of the literature, Higgins and co-workers 1 considered 41 cases as authentic, and 5 others have since been added. 2,3 One instance of pericardial effusion which disappeared along with the interlobar fluid following diuresis (Kiser, 4 cited by Higgins 1 ) and another, of acute and chronic pericarditis with leukemic infiltration of the serosa of the heart, 5 have been noted. Two cases of interlobar effusion associated with pericarditis are reported. Report of Cases Case 1.—A 25-year-old woman was admitted on Feb. 7, 1957, with a history of exertional dyspnea for one year, palpitation for six months, and irregular fever and precordial discomfort for six weeks. Because of a band-like density in the right lung in a roentgenogram she had had antituberculous therapy for the past one month. As acid-fast bacilli
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L.M. Sanghvi (1958) conducted a case report in Loculated interlobar effusion associated with pericarditis (n=2). Two cases of loculated interlobar effusion associated with pericarditis were reported, including a 25-year-old woman with a history of exertional dyspnea and irregular fever.
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