Malignant Lymphoma Demonstrating Sick Sinus Syndrome

Internal Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 463-466

  Kamimura, Mitsuhiro ^a   Tanabe, Noriko ^a   Hojo, Masaaki ^a   Horiuchi, Tadashi ^a   Kudo, Koichiro ^a   Saitoh, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interferon ; Pleural effusion; Sinoatrial node; T cell rich large B cell lymphoma

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CASE REPORT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FATALITY; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SINUS NODE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURAL EFFUSION; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SINOATRIAL NODE; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0032059514     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.37.463     Document Type: Article

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