Primary cardiac myxomas: Clinical experience and surgical results in 67 patients

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 256-259

  Tasoglu, Irfan ^a   Tutun, Ufuk ^a   Lafci, Gokhan ^a   Hijaazi, Ala ^a   Yener, Umit ^a   Ulus, Adnan Yalcinkaya Tulga ^a   Aksoyek, Aysen ^a   Saritas, Ahmet ^a   Birincioglu, Levent ^a   Pac, Mustafa ^a   Katircioglu, Fehmi ^a  

^a TURKIYE YUKSEK IHTISAS HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLECTOMY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART MYXOMA; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PALPITATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIMARY TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ARREST, INDUCED; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651174662     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2008.00797.x     Document Type: Article

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