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      Pneumopericardium as a non-small-cell lung carcinoma complication

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          Below we present a case of a young man with symptoms of progressive weakness, fever, cough, rapid decrease in body weight and the presence of a tumor in the left axillary region. The chest radiography and echocardiography revealed gas bubbles in the pericardium. The more detailed diagnostics and computed tomography of the chest showed an infiltration of the left lung cavity and a fistula among the bronchus, pleural and pericardial cavities. Further diagnostics demonstrated that the pneumopericardium (diagnosed by means of chest radiograph and echocardiography) was a complication of a primary non-small-cell lung carcinoma.

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          Poniżej przedstawiamy przypadek młodego mężczyzny, który został skierowany do szpitala z następującymi objawami: postępującym osłabieniem, zwyżkami temperatury ciała, kaszlem, szybką redukcją masy ciała oraz obecnością guzka w lewej okolicy pachowej. W radiogramie klatki piersiowej i badaniu echokardiograficznym stwierdzono pęcherzyki gazu w osierdziu. Poszerzono diagnostykę, wykonano tomografię komputerową klatki piersiowej i uwidoczniono naciek lewej wnęki płuca, a także przetokę między jamą okolicy wnęki a oskrzelem głównym oraz jamą osierdzia. W toku dalszego leczenia wykazano, że odma osierdziowa (rozpoznana echokardiograficzne oraz radiologiczne) była powikłaniem niedrobnokomórkowego pierwotnego raka płuca.

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          Concurrent Pneumopericardium and Pneumothorax Complicating Lung Cancer: A Case Report

          The coexistence of pneumothorax and pneumopericardium in patients with primary lung cancer is a very rare phenomenon. We report one such case, in which squamous cell carcinoma of the lung was complicated by pneumopericardium and pneumothorax. Several explanations of the mechanisms involved will be discussed.
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                Journal
                Kardiochir Torakochirurgia Pol
                Kardiochir Torakochirurgia Pol
                KITP
                Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska = Polish Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
                Termedia Publishing House
                1731-5530
                1897-4252
                30 September 2016
                September 2016
                : 13
                : 3
                : 257-259
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Internal Medicine, Prof. A. Sokołowski Specialist Hospital, Szczecin, Poland
                [2 ]Department of Interventional Cardiology, Regional Hospital, Szczecin, Poland
                [3 ]Department of General Surgery and Hand Surgery, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
                [4 ]Department of Thoracic Surgery and Transplantation, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
                [5 ]Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Prof. A. Sokolowski Specialist Hospital, Szczecin, Poland
                Author notes
                Address for correspondence: Anna Lesińska, Department of Interventional Cardiology, Regional Hospital, 4 Akrońska St, 71-455 Szczecin, Poland. e-mail: lesinskaania@ 123456gmail.com
                Article
                28418
                10.5114/kitp.2016.62618
                5071596
                fed8130e-3acc-40ac-9057-38c7a2f3d30a
                Copyright © 2016 Polish Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (Polskie Towarzystwo KardioTorakochirurgów) and the editors of the Polish Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska)

                This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.

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                : 16 February 2015
                : 19 February 2016
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                Case Report

                pneumopericardium,non-small-cell lung carcinoma,pneumothorax

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