Primary cardiac sarcoma mimicking benign myxoma: A case report

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 321-325

  Hasegawa, Tasuku ^a   Nakagawa, Susumu ^a   Chino, Masao ^b   Kunihiro, Takamu ^a   Ui, Susumu ^a   Kimura, Mitsuru ^a  

^a SAISEIKAI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION TOKYO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Echocardiography, transesophageal; Neoplasms (sarcoma, myxoma)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART SARCOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE; MYXOMA; PARESTHESIA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; SARCOMA;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; SARCOMA;

EID: 0036593217     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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