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a Chest X-ray showing enlarged cardiac silhouette. b CT scan showing pericardial effusion and pleural effusion. c Echocardiogram showing pericardial effusion and right ventricular collapse.
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Chest X-ray showed an enlarged heart shadow (fig. 1a) and chest CT showed pericardial effusion (1.6 cm) and right pleural effusion (fig. 1b). Echocardiography revealed pericardial effusion and collapse of the right heart (fig. 1c), so cardiac tamponade was diagnosed.
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Method of treatment for malignant pericardial effusion.
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The procedure of pericardiocentesis and intrapericardial instillation employed in our hospital is shown in fig. 2.
Overall survival rate of malignant pericardial effusion in breast cancer.
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For the 13 patients reviewed herein, the median survival time after the onset of cardiac tamponade was only 4 months (fig. 3).