Surgical treatment of primary intracardiac myxoma: 19 years of experience

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 597-600

  Samanidis, George ^a   Perreas, Konstantinos ^a   Kalogris, Panagiotis ^a   Dimitriou, Stergios ^a   Balanika, Marina ^a   Amanatidis, Gregory ^a   Khoury, Mazen ^a   Michalis, Alkiviadis ^a  

^a ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cardiac myxoma; Cardiac tumor; Myxoma

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIOPLEGIA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MYXOMA; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROTHORAX; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORAX DRAINAGE;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; FEMALE; GREECE; HEART ARREST, INDUCED; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; STERNOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83255162500     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2011.278705     Document Type: Review

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