Asymptomatic pediatric pulmonic valve myxoma involving the right ventricular outflow tract: A case report and review of the literature

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 398-400

  Hekmat, Manochehr ^a   Rafieian, Sima ^a   Aval, Zahra Ansari ^a   Khani, Mohammad ^a   Taherkhani, Maryam ^a   Movahed, Mohammad Reza ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; DIASTOLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART MURMUR; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LUNG ARTERY; MALE; MYXOMA; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE DISEASE; PULMONARY VALVE MYXOMA; SYSTOLE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DISSECTION; EARLY INTERVENTION; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART SURGERY; HEART TUMOR; HEART VENTRICLE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PULMONARY VALVE; SECONDARY PREVENTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DISSECTION; EARLY MEDICAL INTERVENTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART MURMURS; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MYXOMA; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PULMONARY VALVE; SECONDARY PREVENTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866041290     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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