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case_images: Chest radiography shows an enlarged cardiac silhouette.
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case_images: A 57-year-old asymptomatic man with no significant past medical history was found to have an enlarged cardiac silhouette on a routine chest radiograph (Figure 1).
case_images: Coronal (a), sagittal (b), and transverse (c) views of thoracic MRI show a 9 cm pericardial cyst located at the right cardiophrenic angle compressing the right atrium.
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case_images: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a 9 cm pericardial cyst in the right cardiophrenic angle that was associated with right atrial compression (Figures 2(a), 2(b), and 2(c)).
case_images: Intraoperative images show the pericardial cyst before (a and b) and after (c) resection.
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case_images: The pericardial cyst was found to be firm, and had some calcifications on the surface (Figures 3(a), 3(b), and 3(c)).
case_images: Brown murky fluid aspirated from the pericardial cyst.
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case_images: Approximately 300 ml of brown, murky, nonodorous fluid was aspirated from the cyst before it was completely resected (Figure 4).