Hepatocellular carcinoma with right atrial extension in a young patient with congenitally unguarded tricuspid orifice

Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 417-420

  Barberis, Vassilis I ^a,b   Brili, Stella ^a   Dimopoulou, Maria ^a   Barbetseas, John ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cardiac cirrhosis; Congenital heart disease; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Right atrium

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC CIRRHOSIS; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE DISEASE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HEART ATRIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PULMONARY ATRESIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 33745419485     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00226.x     Document Type: Article

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