Unusual tumours of the heart: diagnostic and prognostic implications

Metastases to the heart are extremely uncommon. We describe three unusual cases along with their management. A review of the current literature concerning cardiac secondaries is included.

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Autores principales: Makhija, Zeena, Deshpande, Ranjit, Desai, Jatin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2635359/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19138421
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-4
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spelling pubmed-26353592009-02-04 Unusual tumours of the heart: diagnostic and prognostic implications Makhija, Zeena Deshpande, Ranjit Desai, Jatin J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report Metastases to the heart are extremely uncommon. We describe three unusual cases along with their management. A review of the current literature concerning cardiac secondaries is included. BioMed Central 2009-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC2635359/ /pubmed/19138421 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-4 Text en Copyright © 2009 Makhija et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Makhija, Zeena
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Unusual tumours of the heart: diagnostic and prognostic implications
title Unusual tumours of the heart: diagnostic and prognostic implications
title_full Unusual tumours of the heart: diagnostic and prognostic implications
title_fullStr Unusual tumours of the heart: diagnostic and prognostic implications
title_full_unstemmed Unusual tumours of the heart: diagnostic and prognostic implications
title_short Unusual tumours of the heart: diagnostic and prognostic implications
title_sort unusual tumours of the heart: diagnostic and prognostic implications
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2635359/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19138421
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-4
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