Cardiac tamponade due to advanced gastric cancer: case report and review.

Introduction And Importance: Pericardial involvement due to gastric cancer is uncommon, especially when it is secondary to direct tumor infiltration. Its manifestation as cardiac tamponade is an exceptional situation that represents a challenge for the treating medical team.

Case Presentation: a case of a patient with advanced gastric cancer with cardiopericardial infiltration, complicated with cardiac tamponade is reported.

[Rectal perforation after endoscopic submucosal dissection: conservative management].

Endoscopic mucosal resection and surgery have been the treatments used for resection of early neoplastic colorectal lesions. However, since a few years ago the endoscopic submucosal dissection is a procedure accepted for the curative treatment of these lesions. Among the complications that can occur with this procedure, perforation is one of the most serious ones, requiring in most cases surgical management.