[Chronic pericarditis from radiation (author's transl)]
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Italian]
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[Chronic pericarditis from radiation (author's transl)]
[Article in
Italian]
G Ital Cardiol.
1977.
Abstract
A case of chronic pericarditis with effusion in a 25 years old white man, 19 months after therapeutic irradiation of the mediastinum with a total dose of 4.350 rads for Hodgkin's disease. Pericardiectomy was followed by improvement of functional capacity persistent 7 months after operation.
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