Light-headedness and defective cardiovascular reflexes after neck radiotherapy

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 81-85

  Shapiro, Mark H ^a   Ruiz Ramon, Pablo ^a   Fainman, Claudia ^a   Ziegler, Michael G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Baroreceptors; Blood pressure; Cancer; Neck; Syncope

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009437919     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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