Pneumopericardium Due to Mediastinum Metastatic Lymph Nodes

Ta-Jung Chung; Chien-Kuo Wang

doi:10.1016/j.hlc.2015.08.011

Pneumopericardium Due to Mediastinum Metastatic Lymph Nodes

Heart Lung Circ. 2015 Dec;24(12):e222-3. doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2015.08.011. Epub 2015 Sep 25.

Authors

Ta-Jung Chung¹, Chien-Kuo Wang²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan.
² Department of Radiology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan; Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. Electronic address: n625396@mail.hosp.ncku.edu.tw.

PMID: 26481397
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2015.08.011

Abstract

Pneumopericardium is rare. We report a case of unresectable oropharyngeal cancer with mediastinum metastatic lymph nodes, which lead to left main bronchus fistula and pneumopericardium.

Keywords: Mediastinum metastatic lymph nodes; Pneumopericardium.

Copyright © 2015 Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS) and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ). Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Humans
Lymphatic Metastasis
Male
Mediastinal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
Mediastinal Neoplasms / secondary
Middle Aged
Oropharyngeal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Pneumopericardium / diagnostic imaging*
Radiography