Treatment strategies for pediatric patients with primary cardiac and pericardial tumors: A 30-year review

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1071-1076

  Günther, Thomas ^a   Schreiber, Christian ^a   Noebauer, Christian ^a   Eicken, Andreas ^a   Lange, Ruediger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Outcome; Pediatric cardiac tumor; Surgery

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRANULAR CELL TUMOR; HEART FUNCTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART TUMOR; HEMANGIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; LEIOMYOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MYXOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDIUM; PRIMARY TUMOR; REMISSION; REOPERATION; RHABDOMYOMA; SARCOMA; SINUS RHYTHM; TERATOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ADOLESCENT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MYXOMA; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; RHABDOMYOMA; TERATOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58549108004     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-008-9256-6     Document Type: Article

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