Clinical presentation and investigation of cardiac tumors

Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-68

  Lewis, Claudine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Diagnosis; Imaging; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEVER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MURMUR; HEART MYXOMA; HEART SOUND; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS;

EID: 38749146310     PISSN: 07402570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semdp.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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