Echocardiographic manifestations of complications of radiation therapy

Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 724-728

  Hamza, Anna ^a   Tunick, Paul A ^a   Kronzon, Itzhak ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrictive pericarditis; Coronary artery; Heart; Radiation; Valve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; MALE; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION;

HEART INJURIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 67650711708     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00878.x     Document Type: Article

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