Rapid development of a papillary fibroelastoma with associated thrombus: The role of transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 287-291

  Joffe, Ian I ^a   Jacobs, Larry E ^a   Owen, Alyson N ^a   Ioli, Alfred ^a   Kotler, Morris N ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

noninfectious valvular mass; papillary fibroelastoma; primary cardiac tumor; transesophageal echocardiography; transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROELASTOMA; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0030923861     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1997.tb00724.x     Document Type: Article

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