Papillary fibroelastoma arising from the left ventricular apex associated with nonspecific systemic symptoms

Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 526-528

  Palecek, Tomas ^a   Lindner, Jaroslav ^a   Vitkova, Ivana ^a   Linhart, Ales ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Fibroelastoma; Left ventricular tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBROELASTOMA; HEART TUMOR; HEART VENTRICLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PAPILLARY FIBROELASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 43049117516     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00617.x     Document Type: Article

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