Primary cardiac sarcoma. Description of a case;Sarcoma primitivo del cuore. Descrizione di un caso

Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 196-200

  Tremosini, Silvia ^a   Vegetti, Alberto ^a   Arioli, Dimitriy ^a   Ventura, Paolo ^a   Rossi, Giulio ^a   Modena, Maria Grazia ^a   Zeneroli, Maria Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Malignant fibrous histiocytoma; Primary cardiac tumors; Sarcomas

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DYSPNEA; HEART METASTASIS; HEART SARCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT COUNSELING; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN SYNDROME; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; ADENOCARCINOMA; BIOPSY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FATALITY; HEART TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE CANCER; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; BIOPSY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DIURETICS; DYSPNEA; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART NEOPLASMS; HISTIOCYTOMA, MALIGNANT FIBROUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SUPERIOR VENA CAVA SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34250378736     PISSN: 18276806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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