Fabozzi S J, Newton J R, Moriarty R P, Schellhammer P F
Department of Urology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia.
Urology. 1995 Feb;45(2):320-2. doi: 10.1016/0090-4295(95)80025-5.
A patient is presented whose first and sole evidence of metastatic transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder was pericardial metastasis with life-threatening cardiac tamponade. Definitive diagnosis and management was achieved with fluid cytology and video-assisted thoracic surgical pericardial biopsy and pericardial window.
