Fibrolelastoma and Lambl's excrescences: Localization, morphology and pathologenesis, differential diagnosis and infection

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 591-593

  Hort, Waldemar ^a   Horstkotte, Dieter ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOCARDIUM; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FIBROELASTOMA; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; THROMBOGENESIS; TRICUSPID VALVE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AORTIC VALVE; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 33746440623     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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