Left atrial metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma with liver cirrhosis

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 703-705

  Jeong, Dong Seop ^a   Kim, Jun Sung ^a   Kim, Kyung Hwan ^b   Ahn, Hyuk ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Left atrial tumor; Mitral valve; Pulmonary metastasis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDARTERECTOMY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART METASTASIS; HEART MURMUR; HEART SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; OXYGEN THERAPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR THROMBUS; TUMOR VOLUME; WOUND COMPLICATION;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 78149491652     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2010.241117     Document Type: Article

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