Remarks on 12 cases of hydropericardium due to metastatic cancer
- Author:
Nguyen Van Khoi
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
cancer
- MeSH:
Neoplasms;
Diagnosis
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
2005;314(9):28-31
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
the study included 12 cases of hydropericardium treated at Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Cho Ray Hospital between 2004 and July 2005. Most of them were metastasis of lung cancer, followed is carina ganglion cancer and gastric adenoma. In term of treatment, there was one patient underwent thoracotomy for wide pericardiotomy. The remaining patients were treated by pericardiocenteses. These patients had poor prognosis and low survival rates
