Cardiac varix in relation to right atrial free wall presenting as a mass compressing the right atrium and mimicking a pericardial cyst

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Oomman, Abraham ^a   Ramachandran, Panchapakesan ^a   Santhosham, Rajan ^a   Sridhar, Louis Felix ^a   Ramesh, Binu ^a   Jayaraman, Samy ^a  

^a APOLLO HOSPITALS   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART VARIX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDATID CYST; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDIOTOMY; PERICARDIUM CYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STERNOTOMY; THORACOTOMY;

ADULT; CORONARY VESSELS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDIASTINAL CYST; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 9344221063     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2003.12.070     Document Type: Article

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