Primary heart tumors in the pediatric age group: A review of salient pathologic features relevant for clinicians

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 317-323

  Becker, A E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiac angioma; Cardiac fibroma; Cardiac myxoma; Cardiac rhabdomyoma; Cardiac teratoma; Purkinje cell tumor

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; HEART MYXOMA; HEART TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; INFANT; NEWBORN; PURKINJE CELL; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOMA; TERATOMA;

CHILD; FIBROMA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; MYXOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PURKINJE FIBERS; RHABDOMYOMA; TERATOMA;

EID: 0033918266     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002460010071     Document Type: Review

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