A case of mesothelial/monocytic incidental cardiac excrescence and literature review

Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Hu, Zhong Liang ^a   Lü, Hui ^a   Yin, Hong Ling ^a   Wen, Ji Fang ^a   Jin, Ou ^a  

^a Central South University   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FIBRIN;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MONOCYTE; NOMENCLATURE; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FIBRIN; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MONOCYTES; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 79956312786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1596-5-40     Document Type: Article

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