Cardiac tumors: Classi fi cation and epidemiology

Cardiac Tumor Pathology

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 23-30

  Thiene, Gaetano ^a   Basso, Cristina ^a   Rizzo, Stefania ^a   Gerosa, Gino ^a   Stellin, Giovanni ^a   Valente, Marialuisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

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EID: 85016118587     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-143-1_2     Document Type: Chapter

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