No association between herpes simplex virus 1 and cardiac myxoma

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 141, Issue AUGUST, 2011, Pages

  Schurr, Ulrich P ^a   Berdajs, Denis A ^b   Bode, Beate ^c   Dzemali, Omer ^a   Emmert, Maximilian Y ^a   Genoni, Michele ^a  

^a TRIEMLI HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Benign heart tumours; Herpes simplex infection; Intracardic tumours

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HEART MYXOMA; HEART SURGERY; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 80052196833     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2011.13223     Document Type: Article

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