Cardiac tumor comprising two components including typical myxoma and atypical hypercellularity suggesting a malignant change

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 369-374

  Kusumi, Tomomi ^a   Minakawa, Masahito ^a   Fukui, Kozo ^a   Saito, Shin ^a   Ohashi, Motonari ^a   Sato, Fuyuki ^a   Fukuda, Ikuo ^a   Kijima, Hiroshi ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atypical cells; Cardiac myxoma; Malignant change; Pseudomalignant cells

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CALRETININ; CD34 ANTIGEN; KI 67 ANTIGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CELL DEATH; CELL INVASION; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MURMUR; HEART TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLE; TUMOR CELL;

AGED; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MYXOMA;

EID: 70350573622     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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