Myxoma of the small bowel in a 47-year-old woman with a left atrial myxoma

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 481-484

  Wang, Yuanhong ^b   Sharkey, Francis E ^a  

^a University of Texas Health Science Center   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; SMALL INTESTINE MYXOMA; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SMALL INTESTINE TUMOR; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037394452     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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