Cardiovascular Pathology
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages e79-e83 , March 2011

Idiopathic massive myocardial calcification: a case report and review of the literature

  • Brit S. Shackley

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1732, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Box 951732, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1732, USA. Tel.: +1 825 5719; fax: +1 310 267 2058.
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  • Thao P. Nguyen

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1732, USA
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  • Kalyanam Shivkumar

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1732, USA
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  • Paul J. Finn

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1732, USA
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  • Michael C. Fishbein

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1732, USA

Received 30 December 2009 ,Revised 6 March 2010 ,Accepted 20 April 2010.

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 No funding was provided for the manuscript or for any of its authors. The authors declare no competing financial interests.

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doi: 10.1016/j.carpath.2010.04.004

Cardiovascular Pathology
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages e79-e83 , March 2011

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