Ectopic thyroid tissue as a tumour of the heart - Case report and review of the literature

Polish Journal of Pathology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 173-175

  Chosia, Maria ^a   Waligórski, Szymon ^a   Listewnik, Maria H ^a   Wiechowski, Seweryn ^a  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BIOPROSTHESIS; CASE REPORT; ECTOPIC THYROID GLAND; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ACTINS; CHORISTOMA; DESMIN; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HEART DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THYROID GLAND; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; VIMENTIN;

EID: 0036406851     PISSN: 12339687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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