Paredes C, Del Campo F, Zamarron C
Department of Medicine, Hospital Virgen de la Concha, Zamora, Spain.
Tubercle. 1990 Sep;71(3):219-20. doi: 10.1016/0041-3879(90)90080-r.
Pneumopericardium is rare in tuberculous mediastinal lymphadenitis. Much rarer is the association of pneumopericardium with cardiac tamponade. The case is reported of a 29-year-old patient in whom tuberculous mediastinal lymphadenitis resulted in a fatal tension pneumopericardium.