Primary intimal pulmonary artery sarcoma: A diagnostic challenge

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 949-950

  Scheffel, Hans ^a   Stolzmann, Paul ^a   Plass, André ^a   Weber, Achim ^a   Prêtre, René ^a   Marincek, Borut ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; COR PULMONALE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTIMAL PULMONARY ARTERY SARCOMA; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG SARCOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; SARCOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUNICA INTIMA; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 40949086726     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.11.041     Document Type: Article

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