Leiomyosarcoma of the right atrium masked by a covering thrombus: Conflicting results of echocardiography and transvenous biopsy - In favor of echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 14, Issue 6 PART I, 1997, Pages 607-610

  Auerbach, Ilan ^a   Tenenbaum, Alexander ^b   Fisman, Enrique Z ^b   Shemesh, Joseph ^b   Feinmeser, Meora ^b   Herz, Yitzhak ^b   Trujillo, Ana ^b   Motro, Michael ^b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Echocardiograph; Endomyocardial biopsy; Inferior vena cava; Leiomyosarcoma; Right atrium; Thrombus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TUMOR; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIVER FAILURE; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031439962     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1997.tb00769.x     Document Type: Article

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