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SUBMITTER: Kenawy A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8024814 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kenawy Ayman A Abdelbar Abdelrahman A Zacharias Joseph J
Journal of thoracic disease 20210301 3
Primary cardiac tumours for which surgical resection is the main stay of treatment are rare and present both diagnostic and management challenges. The majority of patients are asymptomatic and one third of those who have symptoms present with vague constitutional symptoms which further complicates the process of early diagnosis. The current state-of-the art multi-modality imaging, routine use of intra-operative transoesophageal echocardiogram (TOE) in most cardiac centres and the tremendous adva ...[more]