Cardiac Tamponade Secondary to Metastasis from Adenocarcinoma of the Parotid Gland

BACKGROUND: Metastatic involvement of pericardium producing cardiac tamponade is rare. When occurs it is mainly from the lung, breast and the neoplasms of the lymphoreticular system. Hematogenous spread of parotid adenocarcinoma to heart is extremely rare and only two cases have been reported in lit...

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Autores principales: Barbetakis, Nikolaos G, Vassiliadis, Michalis, Krikeli, Marianthi, Antoniadis, Theodoros, Tsilikas, Christodoulos
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2003
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC239964/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14577834
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-1-20

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