Right atrial paraganglioma: A rare primary cardiac neoplasm as a cause of chest pain

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 594-597

  Tahir, Mohammad ^a   Noor, Syed Javad ^a   Herle, Aravind ^b   Downing, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Angina pectoris; Computed tomography; Heart atria pathology surgery; Heart neoplasms diagnosis; Paraganglioma diagnosis surgery

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CD57 ANTIGEN; CHROMOGRANIN; INFUSION FLUID; PROTEIN S 100; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEVER; FLUID THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART SURGERY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERPNEA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PARAGANGLIOMA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; STAINING; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHEST PAIN; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEVER; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAGANGLIOMA, EXTRA-ADRENAL; TACHYCARDIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 76149118768     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 15266702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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