A 30-year analysis of cardiac neoplasms at autopsy

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 675-680

  Butany, Jagdish ^a,b   Leong, Shaun W ^a   Carmichael, Khenan ^a   Komeda, Masashi ^c  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac metastases; Cardiac neoplasms; Cardiac tumours

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BONE MARROW METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST METASTASIS; CANADA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEART CANCER; HEART METASTASIS; HEART MUSCLE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; LEUKEMIA; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PATHOLOGY; PERICARDIUM; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; UNIVERSITY; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; ONTARIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 22744451580     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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