Obstructive metastatic malignant melanoma of the heart: Imminent pulmonary arterial occlusion caused by right ventricular metastasis with unknown origin of the primary tumor

Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 351-354

  Basarici, Ibrahim ^a   Demir, Ibrahim ^a   Yilmaz, Huseyin ^a   Altekin, R Emre ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART METASTASIS; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MELANOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION; TELECARDIOLOGY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; PULMONARY ARTERY; VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 33748306097     PISSN: 01479563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2005.11.001     Document Type: Article

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