Complete heart block as a complicating feature of a mediastinal lymphoma

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Jorge, Vanda Cristina ^a   Bernardino, Vera ^a   Araújo, Ana Carolina ^a   Gomes, Sara ^b   Noronha, Carla ^a   Riso, Nuno ^a   Vaz Riscado, Manuel ^a  

^a Curry Cabral's Hospital   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DE ONCOLOGIA DE LISBOA FRANCISCO GENTIL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; ISOPRENALINE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BONE BIOPSY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MEDIASTINUM CANCER; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SEPSIS; SPINE METASTASIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84862071471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.10.2011.4890     Document Type: Article

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