Complete AV Block Following Mediastinal Radiation Therapy: Electrocardiographic and Pathologic Correlation and Review of the World Literature

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 175-188

  Kaplan, Benjamin M ^b   Miller, Albert J ^b   Bharati, Saroja ^a   Lev, Maurice ^b   Grais, I Martin ^b  

^a Maurice Lev Congenital Heart C   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Complete AV block; Conduction system; Mediastinal radiation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FATALITY; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; HEART BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW;

ADULT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; LYMPHOMA, FOLLICULAR; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; RADIATION INJURIES;

EID: 0031261122     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009756504168     Document Type: Review

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