Unusual left atrial appendage mass: Atypical presentation of papillary fibroelastoma

Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 514-516

  Jablonski Cohen, Miroslawa ^a   Ohsie, Linda ^a   Bhatti, Tandeep ^a   Morris, Dennis Lynn ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial appendage mass; Cardiac neoplasms; Computed tomography; Papillary fibroelastoma; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; FIBROELASTOMA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PAPILLARY FIBROELASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PAPILLARY MUSCLES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 43049131438     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00635.x     Document Type: Article

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