Multiple papillary fibroelastomas of the aortic valve: Case report

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Matsumoto, Naoya ^a   Sato, Yuichi ^a   Kusama, Junji ^a   Matsuo, Shinro ^b   Kinukawa, Noriko ^a   Kunimasa, Taeko ^a   Ichiyama, Izumi ^a   Takahashi, Hiroshi ^a   Kimura, Shunichi ^a   Orime, Yukihiko ^a   Saito, Satoshi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Papillary fibroelastoma; Primary cardiac tumor; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART TUMOR; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MULTIPLE CANCER; PAPILLARY FIBROELASTOMA; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AORTIC VALVE; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY;

EID: 34848827452     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2006.11.026     Document Type: Article

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