Successful treatment of primary cardiac lymphoma and pulmonary tumor embolism with chemotherapy

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 172-173

  Kosugi, Munenori ^a   Ono, Takuya ^a   Yamaguchi, Hiroki ^a   Sato, Naoki ^a   Dan, Kazuo ^a   Tanaka, Keiji ^a   Takano, Teruo ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Primary cardiac lymphoma; Pulmonary tumor embolism

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

AGED; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR EMBOLISM; LYMPHOMA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIMARY HEART LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; MALE; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING; PREDNISONE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REMISSION INDUCTION; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 33746291943     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2005.06.054     Document Type: Letter

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