Cardiac tamponade due to leukaemic pericardial effusion
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- 1 September 1973
- Vol. 28 (5) , 657-659
- https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.28.5.657
Abstract
Chia, B. L., Da Costa, J. L., and Ransome, G. A. (1973).Thorax, 28, 657-659. Cardiac tamponade due to leukaemic pericardial effusion. A 19-year-old Chinese woman was admitted to hospital with cardiac tamponade. Pericardial fluid analysis and other investigations failed to reveal a cause of the pericardial effusion and she was treated as for tuberculous pericarditis. Subsequently haematological investigations showed that she was suffering from an acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.Keywords
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