Hepatocellular Carcinoma With Intracavitary Cardiac Involvement: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 643-645

  Sung, Anthony D ^a   Cheng, Susan ^b   Moslehi, Javid ^b   Scully, Eileen P ^b   Prior, Jason M ^b   Loscalzo, Joseph ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; SORAFENIB;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBUS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE STENOSIS; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 51749112233     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.04.042     Document Type: Article

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