Prolonged survival with left atrial spindle cell sarcoma

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 703-704

  Modi, Amit ^a   Lipnevicius, Arturas ^a   Moorjani, Narain ^a   Haw, Marcus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac tumour; Left atrium; Outcome; Spindle cell sarcoma; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART SARCOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEFT ATRIAL SPINDLE CELL SARCOMA; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL SARCOMA; SURVIVAL;

CARCINOMA; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; REOPERATION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 66849101806     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2009.203562     Document Type: Article

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