Percutaneous balloon pericardiotomy, for malignant pericardial tamponade

Chest

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 1499-1501

  Galli, M ^a   Politi, A ^a   Pedretti, F ^a   Castiglioni, B ^a   Zerboni, S ^a  

^a NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

malignant disease; percutaneous pericardial pericardiotomy; pericardial tamponade

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART METASTASIS; HEART TAMPONADE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDIOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE;

EID: 0028847114     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.108.6.1499     Document Type: Article

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