A Case of Pericardial Tuberculoma.
10.4070/kcj.1987.17.1.189
- Author:
Dong Woo KIM
;
In Seok JEON
;
Kuk Jin SONG
;
Seong Hwan KIM
- Publication Type:Case Report
- MeSH:
Echocardiography;
Humans;
Lung;
Middle Aged;
Pericardial Effusion;
Pleural Effusion;
Rare Diseases;
Tuberculoma*;
Tuberculosis;
Veterans
- From:Korean Circulation Journal
1987;17(1):189-194
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
We have experienced a case of pericardial tuberculoma, a very rare disease, with massive pericardial effusion in a 63-year-old veteran. He wdimensional echocardiography. Computed tomographic scans confirmed the presence of a pericardial mass and clinically unsuspected "lung mass". The presence of the lung mass led us a diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma. Surgery confirmed the pericardial mass which revealed tuberculosis by patholohy and loculated pleural effusion at the major fissure, so-called "phantom tumor", not a lung mass.
