Total orthotopic heart transplantation for primary cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma: Factors influencing long-term survival

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1438-1441

  Grandmougin, Daniel ^a,b   Fayad, Georges ^a,b   Decoene, Christophe ^a,b   Pol, Annie ^a,b   Warembourg, Henri ^a,b  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART CANCER; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0034999192     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)02480-8     Document Type: Article

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