Pericardial cyst: an unusual cause of pneumonia

INTRODUCTION: Pericardial cysts occur rarely with an incidence rate of 1 per 100,000. They are usually detected by chance and are clinically silent in most cases. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 66 year old Irish male, with signs and symptoms of pneumonia. A chest X-Ray confirmed left low...

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Autores principales: Elamin, Wael Faroug, Hannan, Kieran
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2491596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18616819
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-26
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Hannan, Kieran
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description INTRODUCTION: Pericardial cysts occur rarely with an incidence rate of 1 per 100,000. They are usually detected by chance and are clinically silent in most cases. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 66 year old Irish male, with signs and symptoms of pneumonia. A chest X-Ray confirmed left lower lobe consolidation. Further imaging including a CT thorax identified a large pericardial cyst as the cause of the symptoms. CONCLUSION: Although pericardial cysts are usually asymptomatic, they can present with chest pain and symptoms of respiratory tract infection.
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spelling pubmed-24915962008-07-31 Pericardial cyst: an unusual cause of pneumonia Elamin, Wael Faroug Hannan, Kieran Cases J Case Report INTRODUCTION: Pericardial cysts occur rarely with an incidence rate of 1 per 100,000. They are usually detected by chance and are clinically silent in most cases. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 66 year old Irish male, with signs and symptoms of pneumonia. A chest X-Ray confirmed left lower lobe consolidation. Further imaging including a CT thorax identified a large pericardial cyst as the cause of the symptoms. CONCLUSION: Although pericardial cysts are usually asymptomatic, they can present with chest pain and symptoms of respiratory tract infection. BioMed Central 2008-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC2491596/ /pubmed/18616819 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-26 Text en Copyright © 2008 Elamin and Hannan; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Elamin, Wael Faroug
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title Pericardial cyst: an unusual cause of pneumonia
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title_short Pericardial cyst: an unusual cause of pneumonia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2491596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18616819
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