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SUBMITTER: Montanez-Valverde RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6109201 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Montañez-Valverde Raúl A RA Olarte Neal Ivan NI Zablah Gerardo G Hurtado-de-Mendoza David D Colombo Rosario R
Oxford medical case reports 20180825 9
Pericardial disease is a common complication of solid tumors and occasionally seen in hematologic malignancies. Pericardial effusion, when it occurs, is usually caused by tumor seeding of the pericardium leading to a serous effusion or by mass effect from mediastinal lymphadenopathy blocking drainage of lymphatic ducts. Pericardial disease from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is uncommon and malignant pericardial effusion is even rarer. Here we present a case of a 31-year-old male with diffuse large B-ce ...[more]