Pulmonary Eosinophilic Inflammatory Infiltration Post-Intensive Care in a Nearly Drowned Young Man with Papillary Fibroelastoma: A Rare Complication Discovered by Forensic Autopsy
Papillary fibroelastoma is a rare benign lesion of heart (1). It is the second most common primary cardiac neoplasm, accounting for 4.4–8% of all tumors of the heart (2). We described a forensic autopsy of a nearly drowned young man with cardiac papillary fibroelastoma who died because of a pulmonar...
Main Authors: | Gelsomina Mansueto, Emanuele Capasso, Claudio Buccelli, Massimo Niola |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2018-01-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmed.2017.00253/full |
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