Bilateral pneumonitis after local irradiation of a thymoma. A case report;Neumonitis bilateral tras irradiatión localizada en un timoma. Descripción de un caso

Archivos de Bronconeumologia

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 544-546

  Andreo Garcia F ^a   Garro Martinez P ^a   De Torrabadella Reynoso, P ^a   Ojanguren Saban I ^a   Esquirol Puig, X ^a   Mesalles Sanjuan E ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Pneumonitis; Radiotherapy; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FATALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; THYMOMA;

FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION PNEUMONITIS; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030332871     PISSN: 03002896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0300-2896(15)30692-x     Document Type: Article

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