Cardiac disease late after chest radiotherapy for Hodgkin's disease - A case report

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 803-805

  Toyofuku, Mamoru ^a,b   Okimoto, Tomokazu ^b   Tadehara, Futoshi ^b   Sumii, Kotaro ^b   Imazu, Michinori ^b   Yamakido, Michio ^b   Sueda, Taijiro ^a   Orihashi, Kazumasa ^a   Matsuura, Yuichiro ^a   Hino, Toshihiko ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kure Kyosai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mitral valve regurgitation; Pericarditis; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANNULOPLASTY; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PERICARDIECTOMY; RADIATION SICKNESS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART; HEART DISEASES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PERICARDITIS, CONSTRICTIVE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; THORAX;

EID: 0347420098     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.63.803     Document Type: Article

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