A case of primary cardiac lymphoma: Analysis of the role of echocardiography in early diagnosis

Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 889-892

  Faganello, Giorgio ^a   Belham, Mark ^b   Thaman, Rajesh ^a   Blundell, Julie ^b   Eller, Timothy ^b   Wilde, Peter ^a  

^a BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL CORNWALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DYSPNEA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEART CANCER; HEART LYMPHOMA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLE; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOXORUBICIN; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 34548356966     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00472.x     Document Type: Article

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