Authors: V. Kurfirst; A. Mokráček; M. Rezler Authors‘ workplace: Kardiochirurgické oddělení, Nemocnice České Budějovice, a. s., primář MUDr. Aleš Mokráček, CSc. Published in: Rozhl. Chir., 2008, roč. 87, č. 7, s. 352-354. Category: Monothematic special - Original
Authors are in their announcement describing a case of a patient with fibrosarcoma of a left atrium, who was treated on Cardiosurgery department in Hospital of České Budějovice. Symptoms, clinical signs and development of this disease are described in the text. There are also information relating cardiac sarcomas, management of their diagnostics and treatment.
Key words: cardiac sarcomas – fibrosarcoma – echocardiography – chemotherapy – autotransplantation
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