Combined resection and adjuvant therapy improves prognosis of sarcomas of the pulmonary trunk

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 829-833

  Genoni, M ^a   Biraima, A M ^a   Bode, B ^a   Shah, A C ^a   Winkler, M B ^a   Turina, M I ^a  

^a TRIEMLI HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Pulmonary artery surgery; Pulmonary trunk, surgery; Resection; Sarcoma; Sarcoma surgery; Vascular neoplasms surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY ARTERY DISEASE; SARCOMA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; SARCOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0035211337     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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