Pulmonary artery sarcoma: Clinical features

Chest

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1480-1488

  Parish, James M ^a   Rosenow III, Edward C ^b   Swensen, Stephen J ^b   Crotty, Thomas B ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

pulmonary artery neoplasma; pulmonary hypertension; pulmonary thromboendarterectomy; pulmonary vascular disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY ARTERY DISEASE; SARCOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR TUMOR; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0030479086     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.110.6.1480     Document Type: Article

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