Extensive pericardial calcification secondary to radiotherapy, causing mixed constrictive-restrictive pathology

This report presents the case of a patient who suffered from a mediastinal neuroblastoma in his childhood (in 1977), having been treated by surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. As a result, he developed multiple calcifications in the atria walls, interatrial septum, right ventricular free wall, m...

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Autores principales: Paniagua González, Miguel, Sánchez Alegre, María Luisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6159184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363214
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20170036
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description This report presents the case of a patient who suffered from a mediastinal neuroblastoma in his childhood (in 1977), having been treated by surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. As a result, he developed multiple calcifications in the atria walls, interatrial septum, right ventricular free wall, mitral and aortic valves and pericardium, triggering a mixed constrictive and restrictive pathology.
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spelling pubmed-61591842018-10-25 Extensive pericardial calcification secondary to radiotherapy, causing mixed constrictive-restrictive pathology Paniagua González, Miguel Sánchez Alegre, María Luisa BJR Case Rep Case Report This report presents the case of a patient who suffered from a mediastinal neuroblastoma in his childhood (in 1977), having been treated by surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. As a result, he developed multiple calcifications in the atria walls, interatrial septum, right ventricular free wall, mitral and aortic valves and pericardium, triggering a mixed constrictive and restrictive pathology. The British Institute of Radiology 2017-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6159184/ /pubmed/30363214 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20170036 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_full Extensive pericardial calcification secondary to radiotherapy, causing mixed constrictive-restrictive pathology
title_fullStr Extensive pericardial calcification secondary to radiotherapy, causing mixed constrictive-restrictive pathology
title_full_unstemmed Extensive pericardial calcification secondary to radiotherapy, causing mixed constrictive-restrictive pathology
title_short Extensive pericardial calcification secondary to radiotherapy, causing mixed constrictive-restrictive pathology
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6159184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363214
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20170036
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