Primary and metastatic cardiac sarcomas: A 12-year experience at a German heart center

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Pathology

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 928-938

  Agaimy, Abbas ^a   Rösch, Johannes ^a   Weyand, Michael ^a   Strecker, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiosarcoma; Cardiac sarcoma; Cardiac surgery; Cardiac tumors; Myxosarcoma; Pathology

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; METASTASIS RESECTION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOMA; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; METASTASECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84870439257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19362625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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