Cardiac tamponade from a giant thymoma: case report

Thymoma, the most common neoplasm of the anterior mediastinum especially in adults, accounts for 20-25% of all mediastinal tumors and 50% of anterior mediastinal masses. These tumors are routinely asymptomatic for prolonged periods of time. Pericardial tamponade is a very rare initial manifestation...

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Autores principales: Fazlıoğulları, Osman, Atalan, Nazan, Gürer, Onur, Akgün, Serdar, Arsan, Sinan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3298781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22309880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-7-14
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Sumario:Thymoma, the most common neoplasm of the anterior mediastinum especially in adults, accounts for 20-25% of all mediastinal tumors and 50% of anterior mediastinal masses. These tumors are routinely asymptomatic for prolonged periods of time. Pericardial tamponade is a very rare initial manifestation of a thymoma. This report presents a patient who had hemorrhagic pericardial tamponade that likely resulted from the largest symptomatic mixed type (type AB) thymoma described in the literature.

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