Bilateral atrial tumors - Report of an elderly man with a heavily calcified left atrial tumor

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 715-718

  Nakajima, Osamu ^a   Yamada, Yoshiharu ^a   Ii, Masaaki ^a   Moriguchi, Tomonori ^a   Sano, Ikuo ^a   Akioka, Hisashi ^a  

^a Nissei Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bilateral atrial myxoma; Calcification; Cardiac tumor; Conservative treatment; Elderly

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HEART ATRIUM; HEART TUMOR; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 0029801885     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.60.715     Document Type: Article

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