Surgical excision of cardiac myxomas: Twenty years experience at a single institution

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 825-831

  Garatti, Andrea ^a   Nano, Giovanni ^a,b   Canziani, Alberto ^a   Gagliardotto, Piervincenzo ^a   Mossuto, Eugenio ^a   Frigiola, Alessandro ^a   Menicanti, Lorenzo ^a  

^a IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MYXOMA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVOR; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857550915     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.11.009     Document Type: Article

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