Left atrium myxosarcoma: An exceptional cardiac malignant primary tumor

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 306-308

  Awamleh, Paula ^a   Alberca, M Teresa ^a   Gamallo, Carlos ^b   Enrech, Santos ^a   Sarraj, Anas ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GETAFE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Heart; Myxoma; Myxosarcoma; Sarcoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART LEFT ATRIUM MYXOSARCOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MYXOSARCOMA; PROGNOSIS; SYMPTOM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART ATRIA; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MYXOMA; MYXOSARCOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 34250822903     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20045     Document Type: Article

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