Unusual appearance of mitral annular calcification mimicking intracardiac tumor prompting early surgery

Cardiology

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 164-166

  Kato, Mahoto ^a   Nakatani, Satoshi ^a   Okazaki, Hidetoshi ^a   Tagusari, Osamu ^a   Kitakaze, Masafumi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac tumor; Caseous necrosis; Dialysis; Mitral annular calcification

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; PHOSPHATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; DYSPNEA; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HEART TUMOR; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MITRAL ANNULAR CALCIFICATION; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CALCINOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33749166922     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000092827     Document Type: Article

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