Unusual cause of partially reversible severe cardiovascular autonomic failure

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 326, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 159-163

  Lavi, Shahar ^a   Aharon Peretz, Judith ^a   Haim, Nissim ^a   Vlodavsky, Eugene ^a   Jacob, Giris ^a  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Autonomic failure; Hodgkin lymphoma; Lung cancer; Paraneoplastic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CANCER; CANCER SURGERY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MALE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0141568789     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-200309000-00012     Document Type: Article

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