Cardiac Tumor Pathology

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Basso, Cristina (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Valente, Marialuisa (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Thiene, Gaetano (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 2013.
• Σειρά: Current Clinical Pathology
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Radiology.; Cardiology.; Oncology.; Pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Diagnostic Radiology.

Cardiac tumors were once a nosographic entity of scarce clinical interest because of the rarity and of the intrinsic diagnostic and therapeutic impossibilities, and were considered a fatal morbid entity. It has now become a topical subject due to advances in clinical imaging (echo, magnetic resonanc...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction: Cardiac tumors in the era of cardiovascular surgery and imaging
• Cardiac tumors: classification and epidemiology
• Cardiac myxoma
• Other benign cardiac tumors
• Cardiac tumors in the paediatric age
• Primary malignant cardiac tumors
• Cardiac metastases
• Echocardiographic diagnosis
• New cardiac imaging techniques: magnetic resonance and computed tomography
• Cardiac surgery
• Chemotherapy and cardiotoxicity.