Right atrial myxoma mimicking an atrial thrombus in the third trimester of pregnancy [3]

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-78

  Fang, Yu Ming Victor ^a   Dean, Robert ^a   Figueroa, Reinaldo ^a,b  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FETUS WEIGHT; FEVER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART PALPITATION; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM; LETTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MYALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM; HEART DISEASE; MYXOMA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MYXOMA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 34248549956     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14767050601131229     Document Type: Letter

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