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Kim, Jeon, Song, and Kim: A Case of Pericardial Tuberculoma
Case Report
Korean Circulation Journal

Korean Circulation Journal 1987; 17(1): 189-194.

Published online: 31 March 1987

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4070/kcj.1987.17.1.189

A Case of Pericardial Tuberculoma

Dong Woo Kim, M.D., In Seok Jeon, M.D., Kuk Jin Song, M.D., Seong Hwan Kim, M.D.

Copyright © 1987 The Korean Society of Circulation

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Abstract

We have experienced a case of pericardial tuberculoma, a very rare disease, with massive pericardial effusion in a 63-year-old veteran.
He wdimensional echocardiography. Computed tomographic scans confirmed the presence of a pericardial mass and clinically unsuspected "lung mass". The presence of the lung mass led us a diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma.
Surgery confirmed the pericardial mass which revealed tuberculosis by patholohy and loculated pleural effusion at the major fissure, so-called "phantom tumor", not a lung mass.

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