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“…Locally advanced cancer may lead to spontaneous perforation of oesophagus which has high mortality rate 2 3. This allows progressive migration of the normal bacterial flora from the oesophagus to adjacent mediastinal organs include of the pericardial sac and pleural cavity leading to uncontrolled infection 4. Pyopneumopericardium and empyema thoracis are very rare, but recognised, complications which dictate prompt surgical therapy.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Locally advanced cancer may lead to spontaneous perforation of oesophagus which has high mortality rate 2 3. This allows progressive migration of the normal bacterial flora from the oesophagus to adjacent mediastinal organs include of the pericardial sac and pleural cavity leading to uncontrolled infection 4. Pyopneumopericardium and empyema thoracis are very rare, but recognised, complications which dictate prompt surgical therapy.…”
Section: Descriptionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There have been previously reported cases of cardiac tamponade or purulent pericarditis in oesophageal cancer patients in the setting of an OPF. Most of them have been reported as a result of radiation and chemotherapy or stenting 3 7–11. Some of them were already known to have oesophageal cancer before the development of the cardiac tamponade 12.…”
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confidence: 99%