Localized pericarditis with calcifications mimicking a pericardial tumor

Internal Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 355-358

  Iseki, Harukazu ^a   Kayaba, Yuji ^a   Tamura, Takashi ^a   Uzawa, Hidenori ^a   Suko, Yojiro ^a   Miyamoto, Keicho ^a  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Medical Treatment Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Annular constrictive pericarditis; Palpitation; Propionibacterium acnes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CALCINOSIS; CASE REPORT; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES;

CALCINOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDITIS, CONSTRICTIVE; PERICARDIUM; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES;

EID: 0033109909     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.38.355     Document Type: Article

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