A malignant triton tumor in the anterior mediastinum requiring emergency surgery: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 834-836

  Otani, Yoshimi ^a   Morishita, Yasuo ^a   Yoshida, Ichiro ^a   Ishikawa, Susumu ^a   Otaki, Akio ^a   Aihara, Toshikazu ^a   Nakajima, Takashi ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

malignant schwannoma; malignant Triton tumor; mediastinal tumor; rhabdomyoblast; surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; GRANULAR CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEURILEMOMA; MEDIASTINUM; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; NEURILEMMOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029855340     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00311649     Document Type: Article

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