A case of primary cardiac B cell lymphoma associated with ventricular tachycardia, successfully treated with systemic chemotherapy and radiotherapy - A long-term survival case

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 135-138

  Miyashita, Toyohisa ^a   Miyazawa, Izumi ^a   Kawaguchi, Tetsuo ^a   Kasai, Toshio ^a   Yamaura, Takahiro ^a   Ito, Toshiro ^b   Takei, Manabu ^b   Kiyosawa, Kendo ^b  

^a Kofu Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Primary cardiac lymphoma; Radiotherapy; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DISOPYRAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; PREDNISOLONE; VINCRISTINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CANCER; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; REMISSION INDUCTION; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 0034051844     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.64.135     Document Type: Article

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