A diagnostic challenge - An unusual right atrial mass, 12 years following atrial septal defect surgery

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 285-286

  Pillai, Jain Bhaskara ^a,b   Feindel, Christopher M ^a   Butany, Jagdish ^a   Murphy, Patricia ^a  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atrial septal defect; Cardiac myxoma; Right atrial mass

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; AORTA THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMBRYO CELL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STONE FORMATION; TUMOR THROMBUS;

EID: 24644474513     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2005.109512     Document Type: Article

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