Cardiac tamponade is a potentially life-threatening condition that is not uncommon in the oncology setting. Massive pericardial effusion occurring due to metastatic prostatic carcinoma is very rare and only a handful of cases have been reported in literature till date. We report one such case, review literature and stress on keeping this rare diagnosis as one of cause of breathlessness in patients with prostate cancer.
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