Cardiac tumors of adipocytes and cystic tumor of the atrioventricular node

Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-38

  Veinot, John P ^a  

^a Laboratory Medicine   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cystic tumor atrioventricular node; Lipoma; Lipomatous hypertrophy; Liposarcoma

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTE; ARTICLE; CARDIAC VALVE LIPOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HAMARTOMA; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE TUMOR; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART SARCOMA; HEART SURGERY; HEART TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIPOMA; LIPOSARCOMA; MORBIDITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN DEATH; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADIPOCYTES; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, ADIPOSE TISSUE;

EID: 38749128391     PISSN: 07402570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semdp.2007.10.002     Document Type: Article

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