Aggressive tumoral calcinosis in an infant thoracotomy scar

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 864-865

  Kadlec, Jakub ^a   Hucin, Bohumil ^b   Tlaskal, Tomas ^b   Westaby, Stephen ^c  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MOTOL   (Czech Republic)

^c Oxford Heart Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calcinosis; Cicatrix; Infant; Thoracic wall; Thoracotomy

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE;

AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; CASE REPORT; ECHOGRAPHY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMATOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; JOINT FUNCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR; SHOULDER; THORACOTOMY; TUMOR CALCINOSIS;

AORTIC COARCTATION; CALCINOSIS; CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; SHOULDER DISLOCATION; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78649587898     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2009.232116     Document Type: Article

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