PERICARDITIS AS THE INITIAL MANIFESTATION OF MALIGNANT THYMOMA - DISAPPEARANCE OF PERICARDIAL-EFFUSION WITH CORTICOSTEROID-THERAPY

Authors
SHISHIDO M YANO K ICHIKI H YANO M
Citation
M. Shishido et al., PERICARDITIS AS THE INITIAL MANIFESTATION OF MALIGNANT THYMOMA - DISAPPEARANCE OF PERICARDIAL-EFFUSION WITH CORTICOSTEROID-THERAPY, Chest, 106(1), 1994, pp. 313-314
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Respiratory System
Journal title
Chest → ACNP
ISSN journal
00123692
Volume
106
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
313 - 314
Database
ISI
SICI code
0012-3692(1994)106:1<313:PATIMO>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
A patient with malignant thymoma is described in whom the initial mani festation was pericarditis; cardiac tamponade was relieved by corticos teroid therapy.