Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology
Volume 25, Issue 1 , Pages 39-46 , February 2008

Primary malignant cardiac tumors

  • Allen Burke, MD

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Allen Burke, MD, CVPath Institute, Inc., 19 Firstfield Road, Gaithersburg, MD 20878.

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doi: 10.1053/j.semdp.2007.10.006

Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology
Volume 25, Issue 1 , Pages 39-46 , February 2008

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