Intracardiac metastases from neuroendocrine tumours

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 517-522

  Drake, W M ^a   Jenkins, P J ^a   Phillips, R R ^a   Lowe, D G ^a   Grossman, A B ^a   Besser, G M ^a   Wass, J A H ^b  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLUOROURACIL; LOMUSTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOID SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART METASTASIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0030979366     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1997.1440958.x     Document Type: Article

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