Surgical treatment of malignant tumors of the right heart

Japanese Heart Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 263-271

  Kubota, Hiroshi ^a   Takamoto, Shinichi ^b   Kotsuka, Yutaka ^b   Miyairi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Murakawa, Tomohiro ^b   Makuuchi, Haruo ^c   Kawauchi, Motohiro ^d   Furuse, Akira ^d   Sudo, Kenichi ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d JR Tokyo General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac tumor; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Leiomyosarcoma; Pulmonary embolism; Renal cell carcinoma; Round cell sarcoma; Sarcoma; Spindle cell sarcoma; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

ABOVE KNEE AMPUTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CANCER; HEART FAILURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JAPAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER LOBECTOMY; MALE; METASTASIS; NEPHRECTOMY; OSTEOSARCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SMALL CELL SARCOMA; SPINDLE CELL SARCOMA; SURGICAL WARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CARCINOMA; HEART SURGERY; HEART TUMOR; KIDNEY TUMOR; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; OSTEOSARCOMA; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA, SMALL CELL;

EID: 0036559437     PISSN: 00214868     EISSN: 1348673X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/jhj.43.263     Document Type: Article

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