Successful surgical excision of primary right atrial angiosarcoma

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Bouma, Wobbe ^a   Lexis, Chris P H ^a   Willems, Tineke P ^a   Suurmeijer, Albert J H ^a   van der Horst, Iwan C C ^a   Ebels, Tjark ^a   Mariani, Massimo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY;

BONE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 79953748892     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-6-47     Document Type: Article

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