Yang Go Eun, Kim Heung Cheol, Kim Jung Hun
Department of Radiology, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, South Korea.
Department of Oncology, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, South Korea.
BJR Case Rep. 2016 Sep 22;3(1):20160051. doi: 10.1259/bjrcr.20160051. eCollection 2017.
This article reports a case of primary oesophageal small cell carcinoma with a large amount of purulent pericardial effusion due to oesophageal rupture. The patient was treated with chemotherapy, which resulted in a marked decrease in the size of the oesophageal mass and partial resolving of metastatic lymphadenopathy.