Abstract:The reported annals incidence of pericardial cysts (PC) in medical literature varies from 1/100000 to 1/120000. They are usually incidentally found during a thoracic or cardiac surgery or by an imaging modality by chance or remain clinically asymptomatic until the 3rd or 4th decades of life. However, in rare cases, compression or rupture of cysts into the surrounding structures, lead to the appearance of symptoms that may further be diagnosed by imaging modalities. We report the case of a 35-year-old man, with… Show more
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