Huge biatrial primary cardiac B-cell lymphoma resulting in bilateral atrioventricular valve obstruction

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2339-2342

  Zakynthinos, Epaminondas ^a   Tassopoulos, George ^a   Haritos, Christos ^b   Kitsanta, Panagiota ^b   Pyros, John ^b   Roussos, Charis ^a   Papiris, Spyros A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

B cell lymphoma; Echocardiography; Heart failure; Primary cardiac lymphoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART SURGERY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LUNG CONGESTION; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIMARY CARDIAC LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART ATRIA; HEART BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 8644247491     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10428190410001733754     Document Type: Article

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