Thoracoscopic removal of a papillary fibroelastoma in the left ventricular apex

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 640-642

  Kaneko, Yukihiro ^a   Kobayashi, Jotaro ^a   Saitoh, Fumie ^a   Ono, Minoru ^b  

^a JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgical procedure; Heart neoplasm; Papillary fibroelastoma; Thoracoscopes

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROELASTOMA; HEART HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART TUMOR; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MITRAL VALVE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; THORACOSCOPY; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 33749375984     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2006.131326     Document Type: Article

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