A case of complete heart block reverting to normal sinus rhythm after treatment for cardiac invasive Burkitt's lymphoma [2]

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 687-690

  Knowles, Joshua W ^a   Elliott, Amy B ^a   Brody, Joshua ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN RADIATION; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HEART METASTASIS; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LETTER; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MUCOCELE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OSTEOMYELITIS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SINUS RHYTHM; SYNCOPE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ARRHYTHMIA, SINUS; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; HEART BLOCK; HEART NEOPLASMS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547588271     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-007-0290-x     Document Type: Letter

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