Primary cardiac synovial sarcoma: A case report and literature review

Pathology International

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 150-155

  Yokouchi, Yuki ^a   Hiruta, Nobuyuki ^b   Oharaseki, Toshiaki ^a   Ihara, Fumie ^a   Oda, Yoshinao ^c   Ito, Shingo ^a   Yamashita, Hiromasa ^a   Ozaki, Shigeyuki ^a   Gomi, Tatsuya ^a   Takahashi, Kei ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY OHASHI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY SAKURA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epicardium; Heart; Intrapericardial tumor; Pericardium; Synovial sarcoma

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARDIAC SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; CASE REPORT; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; HEART PALPITATION; HEART SARCOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCINTIGRAPHY; SPINDLE CELL; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR CELL;

ACTINS; ANGIOLIPOMA; ANTIGENS, CD34; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIPOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICYTES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SARCOMA, SYNOVIAL; THIGH; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79952083043     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: 14401827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2010.02631.x     Document Type: Article

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