Cardiac myxomas: 24 Years of experience in 49 patients

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 971-977

  Keeling, I M ^a   Oberwalder, P ^a   Anelli Monti, M ^a   Schuchlenz, H ^a   Demel, U ^a   Tilz, G P ^a   Rehak, P ^a   Rigler, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cardiac myxoma; Cardiac surgery; Immunology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER IMMUNOLOGY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEART MYXOMA; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MULTIPLE CANCER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPTOM; TISSUE INJURY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036894393     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1010-7940(02)00592-4     Document Type: Article

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