Open AccessPericarditis as a Marker of Occult Cancer and a Prognostic Factor for Cancer Mortality
Author(s) -
Kirstine K. Søgaard,
Dóra Körmendiné Farkas,
Véra Ehrenstein,
Krishnan Bhaskaran,
Hans Erik Bøtker,
Henrik Toft Sørensen
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.116.024041
Subject(s) - medicine , cancer , hazard ratio , pericarditis , standardized mortality ratio , cancer registry , population , cohort , lung cancer , proportional hazards model , incidence (geometry) , surgery , confidence interval , physics , environmental health , optics
Pericarditis may be a serious complication of malignancy. Its significance as a first symptom of occult cancer and as a prognostic factor for cancer survival is unknown.
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