Primary cardiac lymphoma diagnosed by percutaneous intracardiac biopsy with combined fluoroscopic and transesophageal echocardiographic imaging

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 226-233

  Jurkovich, David ^a   De Marchena, Eduardo ^a   Bilsker, Martin ^a   Fierro Renoy, Christian ^a   Temple, Donald ^a   Garcia, Hernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac biopsy; Cardiac neoplasm; Echocardiography; Malignant Lymphoma; Transesopha geal

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REMISSION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BIOPSY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYOCARDIUM;

EID: 0034096984     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-726X(200006)50:2<226::AID-CCD19>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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