Surgical Treatment of Primary Pulmonary Artery Tumor: Two Cases of Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma and Leiomyosarcoma

Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 557-561

  Yamada, Noriko ^a,b   Minato, Naoki ^a   Ikeda, Kazuyuki ^a   Shimokawa, Tomoki ^a   Hisamatsu, Yasushi ^a  

^a Fukuoka Tokushukai Hospital   (Japan)

^b Fukuoka Tokushukai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Leiomyosarcoma; Malignant fibrous histiocytoma; Pulmonary artery tumor; Tumor recurrence; Tumor resection

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; POLITEF;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; PULMONARY ARTERY DISEASE; PULMONARY ARTERY STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; DERMATOFIBROMA; FATALITY; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR TUMOR;

AGED; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; ENDARTERECTOMY; FATAL OUTCOME; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0442294923     PISSN: 13444964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11748-003-0124-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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