Thymic cancer: A not-so-indolent cause of pericardial effusion.
Keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma
Pericardial effusion
Thymic cancer
Journal
Annals of medicine and surgery (2012)
ISSN: 2049-0801
Titre abrégé: Ann Med Surg (Lond)
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101616869
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2021
Nov 2021
Historique:
received:
22
08
2021
revised:
11
09
2021
accepted:
13
09
2021
entrez:
18
10
2021
pubmed:
19
10
2021
medline:
19
10
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The incidence of pericardial effusion in the U.S. is roughly 3.4% [1]. While most causes of pericardial effusions are indolent and transient, malignancy is a much more insidious cause that cannot be overlooked. Most cases of documented pericardial effusion secondary to malignancy have been due to mass effect from benign thymic tumors, such as thymomas. Our case highlights a 41-year-old male who presented with a dry cough and epigastric pain, found to have a large pericardial effusion and incidental thymic mass. The mass was biopsied and found to be keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma. This case expands our knowledge base as clinicians that pericardial effusions can be caused by malignant extension of tumors, rather than simply by mass effect of benign tumors.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34659744
doi: 10.1016/j.amsu.2021.102866
pii: S2049-0801(21)00816-5
pmc: PMC8503851
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Pagination
102866Informations de copyright
© 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of IJS Publishing Group Ltd.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
None.None.
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