A Case Report on Primary Carcinoma with Abnormally High Value of CA 19-9 and with Cardiac Tamponade as the Initial Symptom

Abstract

A 56 years old male with a chief complaint of dyspnea on admission was diagnosed as cardiac tamponade associated with pulmonary adenocarcinoma of lower differentiation type through the subsequent examination. As far as we surveyed only several similar cases of cardiac tamponade with pulmonary carcinoma have been reported in Japan. However, these cases do not include the case like the present one in which CA 19-9 was so high as over 10000U/ml, so that this case was considered as an extremely rare case.