Echocardiographic imaging of tricuspid and pulmonary valve abnormalities in primary ovarian carcinoid tumor

Carcinoid is a rare malignancy originating from enterochromaffin cells and is clinically characterized by flushing, diarrhea and bronchospasm, due to secretion of vasoactive substances. A dreaded complication is carcinoid heart disease, which mainly affects right cardiac chambers, resulting in thick...

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Autores principales: Aggeli, Constantina, Felekos, Ioannis, Kazazaki, Christina, Giannopoulos, Dimitrios, Kartalis, Athanasios, Pitsavos, Christos, Stefanadis, Christodoulos
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2942805/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20813053
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-8-37

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2942805/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20813053
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-8-37

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