Acute vascular embolus resulting from metastatic endocardial involvement with synovial sarcoma: Report of a case and review of the literature

Australasian Radiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-52

  Khoo, Vincent ^a   Ngan, Samuel ^a   Guiney, Michael ^a   Lim Joon, Daryl ^a  

^a PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiac metastasis; Embolus; Radiotherapy; Soft tissue sarcoma; Surgery; Synovial sarcoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FATALITY; HEART METASTASIS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

EID: 0030960754     PISSN: 00048461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.1997.tb00469.x     Document Type: Article

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