Coronary artery disease following mediastinal irradiation

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 181-183

  Dragomanovits, Spyridon I ^a   Lazopoulos, George L ^a   Tzinieris, Ioannis N ^a   Deliargyris, Efthymios N ^a,b  

^a ATHENS MEDICAL CENTER   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass grafting; Coronary artery disease; Irradiation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; MEDIASTINUM; ULTRASOUND; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548033279     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: 10117970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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