Conjoined gastric and mediastinal benign cystic teratomas. Case report of a rare occurrence and review of literature

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 340-345

  Shirodkar, Nitin P ^a,c   Chopra, Paramjit S ^a   Marker, Melissa ^b   Murphy, Kenneth D ^a   Dhamoon, Amit ^a   Kwon, Oun J ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computerized tomography (CT); Cystic teratomas; Mediastinum; Neoplasm; Ultrasound (US)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ECTODERM; ENDODERM; GERM LAYER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MESODERM; STOMACH TUMOR; TERATOMA;

EID: 0030670322     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-7071(96)00078-2     Document Type: Review

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