Ectopic primary pleural thymoma: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 747-750

  Higashiyama, Masahiko ^a   Doi, Osamu ^a   Kodama, Ken ^a   Yokouchi, Hideoki ^a   Tateishi, Ryuhei ^a   Kuriyama, Keiko ^a  

^a CENTER FOR ADULT DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

pleura; pleural thymoma; thymoma

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA TUMOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN; THYMOMA;

EID: 0029741909     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00312100     Document Type: Article

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