Should right-sided fibroelastomas be operated upon?

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 647-650

  Scalia, Domenico ^a,b   Basso, Cristina ^a   Rizzoli, Giulio ^a   Lupia, Mario ^a   Budano, Sebastiano ^a   Thiene, Gaetano ^a   Venturini, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADUA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^b Ist di Chirurgia Cardiovascolare   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FIBROELASTOMA; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROMA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 0030781117     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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