A 42-year-old woman with a pulmonic-valve mass

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 336, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 1512-1516

  Scully, Robert E ^a   Mark, Eugene J ^a   McNeely, William F ^a   Ebeling, Sally H ^a   Phillips, Lucy D ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSPNEA; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FIBROELASTOMA; HEART MURMUR; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE;

EID: 1842374472     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199705223362108     Document Type: Article

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