Mejía Lozano Patricia, Pérez Ortiz Enrique, Puchaes Manchón Carolina
Servicio de Neumología, Hospital Gutiérrez Ortega, Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real, Spain.
Arch Bronconeumol. 2010 Dec;46(12):658-9. doi: 10.1016/j.arbres.2009.12.003. Epub 2010 Feb 8.
Pericardial and pleuropericardial cysts are uncommon (7% of all mediastinal masses) and in the majority of cases are symptomatic and it is usually a casual finding. We present the case of a 62 year-old male with a left-sided pleuropericardial cyst which had the development of a cardiac tamponade; a rare finding in this type of disease. After it was surgically removed, the histopathology showed infiltration of the cyst by a poorly differentiated large cell carcinoma.
