Primary malignant cardiac tumors

Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-46

  Burke, Allen ^a  

^a CVPATH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiosarcoma; Atrium; Cardiac; Malignant fibrous histiocytoma; Sarcoma; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; CHONDROSARCOMA; FIBROSARCOMA; HEART CANCER; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART SARCOMA; HEART SURGERY; HEART TUMOR; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LYMPHOMA; MALIGNANT LENTIGO; OSTEOSARCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA;

HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; SARCOMA;

EID: 38749137028     PISSN: 07402570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semdp.2007.10.006     Document Type: Article

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