Amiodarone toxicity presenting as pulmonary mass and peripheral neuropathy: The continuing diagnostic challenge

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 82, Issue 963, 2006, Pages 73-75

  Azzam, I ^a   Tov, N ^a   Elias, N ^a   Naschitz, J E ^a,b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; CARVEDILOL; DIGOXIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; FUROSEMIDE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; OMEPRAZOLE; RAMIPRIL; SIMVASTATIN; SPIRONOLACTONE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DEFIBRILLATOR; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DYSPNEA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEVER; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HISTIOCYTE; HUMAN; LIMB WEAKNESS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TOXICITY; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TENDON REFLEX; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AMIODARONE; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 30944464226     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2005.040105     Document Type: Article

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