Trends in the clinical and morphological characteristics of cardiac myxoma - 20-Year experience of a single large tertiary referral center in Japan

Circulation Journal

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1008-1013

  Yuda, Satoshi ^a,b   Nakatani, Satoshi ^a   Yutani, Chikao ^a   Yamagishi, Masakazu ^a   Kitamura, Soichiro ^a   Miyatake, Kunio ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac myxoma; Cardiac surgery; Clinical characteristics; Two dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEART MYXOMA; HUMAN; IMAGING; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; TERTIARY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AGED; CHRONOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONOLOGY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036859397     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.66.1008     Document Type: Article

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