Left ventricular fibroma masquerading as postinfarction myocardial rupture

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 580-582

  Lee, K Adam ^a   Kirkpatrick, Joseph G ^a   Moran, John M ^a   Pezzella, A Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FIBROMA; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART RUPTURE; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBROMA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART RUPTURE, POST-INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 0032709323     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00570-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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