Cardiac sarcoma 14 years after treatment for pleural mesothelioma [6]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 352, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 1929-1930

  Neragi Miandoab, Siyamek ^a   Gangadharan, Sidhu P ^b   Sugarbaker, David J ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; BONE METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART SARCOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PLEURECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA; THORAX PAIN; TUMOR RECURRENCE; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; FATALITY; HEART TUMOR; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PLEURA TUMOR; RADIATION INJURY; SARCOMA;

CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SARCOMA;

EID: 17944368261     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200505053521821     Document Type: Letter

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