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Case Reports

Primary Pericardial Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma Causing Cardiac Tamponade

^a Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Hospital Organization Nagasaki Medical Center, Omura City, Nagasaki, Japan
^b Department of Pathology, National Hospital Organization Nagasaki Medical Center, Omura City, Nagasaki, Japan
^c Department of Radiology, National Hospital Organization Nagasaki Medical Center, Omura City, Nagasaki, Japan

Accepted for publication February 14, 2008.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Matsukuma, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Hospital Organization Nagasaki Medical Center, 2-1001-1 Kubara, Omura City, Nagasaki, 856-8562, Japan (Email: matsukuma{at}nmc.hosp.go.jp).

We describe herein an extremely rare case of a large primary pericardial malignant fibrous histiocytoma causing a cardiac tamponade that occurred in a 72-year-old woman. The clinical, radiographic, and pathologic features are reported here together with a brief review of the literature.