Cardiac angiosarcoma: An unuusal presentation with cutaneous metastases

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 273-276

  Pomper, Gregory J ^a   Gianani, Roberto ^a   Johnston, Robert J ^b   Rizeq, Mona N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXCISION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART SARCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBIT METASTASIS; SKIN METASTASIS; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; FATALITY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART TUMOR; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; SKIN TUMOR;

ADULT; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031597724     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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