Large symptomatic pericardial effusion as the presentation of unrecognized cancer: A study in 173 consecutive patients undergoing pericardiocentesis

Medicine

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 49-53

  Ben Horin, Shomron ^a,b   Bank, Ilan ^a   Guetta, Victor ^a   Livneh, Avi ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKEMIA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MESOTHELIOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OVARY CANCER; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33644949533     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.md.0000199556.69588.8e     Document Type: Article

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