Author/Editor     Balažic, J; Frković-Grazio, S; Jereb, B
Title     Cardiac death 25 years after successful treatment for Hodgkin's disease - Case report
Type     članek
Source     Forensic Science International Supplement Series
Vol. and No.     Letnik 1, št. 1
Publication year     2009
Volume     str. 43-5
Language     eng
Abstract     In the following case, the authors are discussing a connection between treating Hodgkin's disease in childhood and later sudden cardiac death of the patient at the age of 37. Examined expert literature describes injuries of the myocardium because of therapeutic irradiation in the childhood.
Descriptors     FORENSIC MEDICINE
HODGKIN'S DISEASE
RADIOTHERAPY
MYOCARDIAL DISEASES
DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC
AUTOPSY