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. 2009;36(5):451-2.

Surgical treatment of primary cardiac sarcomas

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Surgical treatment of primary cardiac sarcomas

Shanda H Blackmon et al. Tex Heart Inst J. 2009.
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Keywords: Cardiac surgical procedures/methods; chemotherapy, adjuvant; combined modality therapy; heart neoplasms/mortality/surgery; heart transplantation/methods; replantation; survival rate; transplantation, autologous.

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Fig. 1 Survival curve for left-heart sarcomas.
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Fig. 2 Survival curve for pulmonary artery sarcomas.

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