Metastatic Carcinoid Tumor of the Heart

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1721-1722

  Wee, Jon O ^a   Sepic, Jerome D ^a   Mihaljevic, Tomislav ^a   Cohn, Lawrence H ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOID SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HEART METASTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0242636939     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00688-X     Document Type: Article

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