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Volume 350:e19 May 20, 2004 Number 21
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Pericardial Cyst

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A 20-year-old man who served as a midshipman presented to our cardiology clinic after a chest radiograph that had been obtained as part of the physical examination for military-officer commissioning was found to be abnormal. He said he had no symptoms, and the results of a physical examination were normal. The chest radiograph (Panel A) showed a smoothly marginated density in the region of the right cardiophrenic angle that partially obscured the right border of the heart. A computed tomographic scan (Panel B) showed a homogeneous and smooth lesion with no septations or calcifications: it measured 5.0 by 4.4 by . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 



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