Primary tumors of the heart: experience at the University Hospital of the West Indies

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 98-103

  Coard, Kathleen C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Myxomas; Primary cardiac tumors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HEART MYXOMA; HEART TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAMAICA; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHABDOMYOMA; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHABDOMYOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEST INDIES;

EID: 33847048514     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2006.09.006     Document Type: Article

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