Idiopathic chylopericardium: An unusual cause of cardiac tamponade

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 249-252

  Mehrotra, Sanjay ^a   Peeran, Naushad Ahmed ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Abhijit ^a  

^a Multispecialty Hospital Shaw Mazumdar Medical Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Cardiac tamponade; Chylous pericarditis; Pericardial effusion; Thoracic duct ligation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CHYLE; CHYLOPERICARDIUM; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDITIS; PERICARDIUM; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA;

ADULT; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIUM; THORACIC DUCT;

EID: 33748061286     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 07302347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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