The role of interleukin-6 in cases of cardiac myxoma: Clinical features, immunologic abnormalities, and a possible role in recurrence

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-7

  Mendoza, Cesar Emilio ^a,b   Rosado, Manuel Francisco ^a   Bernal, Leon ^b  

^a HOSPITAL NACIONAL GUILLERMO ALMENARA IRIGOYEN   (Peru)

^b JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Constitutional symptoms; Heart atrium; Heart neoplasms; Immunologic abnormalities; Interleukin 6; Myocardium pathology; Myxoma; Neoplasms, second primary; Tumor markers, biological

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HUMAN; MALE; REMISSION; TUMOR IMMUNOLOGY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL;

EID: 0035044633     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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