Cystic tumor of the atrioventricular node: Rare antemortem diagnosis

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 120-127

  Law, Kelsey B ^a   Feng, Tianshu ^a   Nair, Vidhya ^b   Cusimano, Robert James ^c,d   Butany, Jagdish ^a  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antemortem diagnosis; Cardiac tumors; Cystic tumor of the atrioventricular node

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CASE REPORT; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTIC TUMOR OF THE ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; EXCISION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART PALPITATION; HEART TUMOR; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCULT SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THICKNESS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME;

ADULT; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; CYSTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84857055165     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: 18791336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2011.05.004     Document Type: Review

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