Cardiac masses: An integrative approach using echocardiography and other imaging modalities

Heart

Volumn 97, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1101-1109

  Auger, Dominique ^a   Pressacco, Josephine ^a   Marcotte, François ^a   Tremblay, Annie ^a   Dore, Annie ^a   Ducharme, Anique ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; EXTRASYSTOLE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FIBROELASTOMA; FIBROMA; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART PALPITATION; HEART SARCOMA; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LIPOMA; MITRAL ANNULOPLASTY; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MONOMORPHIC VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FIBROMA; FIBROSIS; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIPOMA; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; MYXOMA; SARCOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79957986002     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2010.196006     Document Type: Article

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