Multiple cerebral mycotic aneurysms due to left atrial myxoma: Are there any pitfalls for the cardiac surgeon?

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 466-468

  Baikoussis, Nikolaos G ^a   Siminelakis, Stavros N ^a   Kotsanti, Angeliki ^a   Achenbach, Kerstin ^a   Argyropoulou, Maria ^a   Goudevenos, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cardiac myxoma; Carney's complex; Cerebral bleeding; Heart tumours; Left atrial myxoma; Multiple cerebral mycotic aneurysms

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; COLLAPSE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HUMAN; MULTIPLE CEREBRAL MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; RISK; SURGEON; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VERTIGO;

AGED; ANEURYSM, INFECTED; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MYXOMA;

EID: 80053089214     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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