Total detachment of cardiac myxoma causing saddle embolization and mimicking aortic dissection

Japanese Heart Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 359-363

  Fang, Ber Ren ^a   Chang, Chih Ping ^a   Cheng, Chi Wen ^a   Yang, Ning I ^a   Shieh, Min Chan ^a   Lee, Ning ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cardiac myxoma; Embolization

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA BIFURCATION; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MURMUR; HEART MYXOMA; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL AORTA; AORTA DISEASE; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; HEART TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MYXOMA; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL;

EID: 2442657019     PISSN: 00214868     EISSN: 1348673X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/jhj.45.359     Document Type: Article

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