Symptomatic pericardial effusion in lung cancer patients: The role of fluid cytology
โ Scribed by Dr. Yehouda Edoute; Ehud Malberger; Abraham Kuten; Marian Moscovitcz; Shlomo A. Ben-Haim
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 330 KB
- Volume
- 45
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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Twenty-two patients with malignant pericardial effusions were treated with subxiphoid partial pericardiectomy between 1984 and 1989. Thirteen patients also had a sclerosing agent instilled intrapericardially. Tamponade was relieved by pericardiocentesis before administration of general anesthesia. I
## Background: Lung cancer (lc) is the most common fatal malignancy, but there are no useful tumor markers for diagnosis or monitoring. mucin 1 has an established role as a marker in other malignancies, but has undergone limited assessment in lc. ## Methods: Serum from 86 patients with lc and 24