Primary cardiac tumors: A clinicopathologic evaluation of four cases

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-67

  Winther, Charlotte ^a   Timmermans Wielenga, Vera ^a   Daugaard, Søren ^a   Mortensen, Svend Aage ^a   Sander, Kåre ^a   Andersen, Claus B ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cardiac tumors; Immunohistochemistry; Sarcomas

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CALDESMON; CALPONIN; DESMIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART SARCOMA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MESENCHYMOMA; MYOGENIC SARCOMA; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA;

EID: 78650420263     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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