An unusual marrow transplant complication: cardiac myxoma
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Unusual aspects of cardiac myxoma
A cardiac myxoma may manifest as miscellaneous and uncharacteristic presentations. These unusual aspects of cardiac myxomas can be rare clinical presentations, special patient populations, unusual locations, and special pathology, which may lead to a delayed diagnosis, improper checkups, and subsequent untimely treatment, eventually resulting in unexpected poor prognosis. Therefore, the diagnos...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bone Marrow Transplantation
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0268-3369,1476-5365
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1701183