Malignant Tumors of the Heart and Great Vessels: MR Imaging Appearance

Radiographics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 145-153

  Mader, Michael T ^a   Poulton, Thomas B ^a   White, Richard D ^b  

^a AULTMAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart, neoplasms, 51.324; Histiocytoma, 51.329; Paraganglioma, 67.3114; Pulmonary arteries, neoplasms, 564.32; Sarcoma, 51.32, 564.32

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOSARCOMA; AORTA DISEASE; ARTICLE; DERMATOFIBROMA; FEMALE; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAGANGLIOMA; PULMONARY ARTERY; SARCOMA; VASCULAR TUMOR;

ADULT; AORTIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAGANGLIOMA; PULMONARY ARTERY; SARCOMA; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030637152     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiographics.17.1.9017805     Document Type: Article

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