Thymic cancer: A not-so-indolent cause of pericardial effusion.

Adrian Whiting, Jonathan Vincent M Reyes, Saad Ahmad, Mark N Sayegh, Talal Almas, David Song

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Article in Annals of medicine and surgery (2012), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Adrian WhitingNYU Langone Hospital - Long Island, Department of Medicine, Mineola, NY, USA.

Jonathan Vincent M ReyesIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Elmhurst Hospital Center, Department of Medicine, Elmhurst, NY, USA.

Saad AhmadIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Elmhurst Hospital Center, Department of Medicine, Elmhurst, NY, USA.

Mark N SayeghSt. John's Riverside Hospital, Department of Medicine, Yonkers, NY, USA.

Talal AlmasRoyal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.

David SongIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Elmhurst Hospital Center, Department of Medicine, Elmhurst, NY, USA.

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Abstract

The incidence of pericardial effusion in the U.S. is roughly 3.4% [1]. While most causes of pericardial effusions are indolent and transient, malignancy is a much more insidious cause that cannot be overlooked. Most cases of documented pericardial effusion secondary to malignancy have been due to mass effect from benign thymic tumors, such as thymomas. Our case highlights a 41-year-old male who presented with a dry cough and epigastric pain, found to have a large pericardial effusion and incidental thymic mass. The mass was biopsied and found to be keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma. This case expands our knowledge base as clinicians that pericardial effusions can be caused by malignant extension of tumors, rather than simply by mass effect of benign tumors.

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Keratinizing squamous cell carcinomaPericardial effusionThymic cancer

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PMID34659744

DOI10.1016/j.amsu.2021.102866

PMCPMC8503851

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