Intracardiac extension of metastatic pulmonary leiomyosarcoma

Heart Lung and Circulation

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 121-122

  Collins, Nicholas J ^a   Barlow, Malcolm A ^a   Woodford, Phillip A ^a   Hayes, Peter C ^a  

^a JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Leiomyosarcoma; Neoplasm metastasis; Transoesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DROWSINESS; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LUNG SARCOMA; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROPERITONEAL TUMOR; SPLEEN INFARCTION; STROKE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 21244499734     PISSN: 14439506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2005.03.003     Document Type: Article

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