Mediastinal growing teratoma syndrome

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 359-362

  Afifi, Hazem Y ^a   Bosl, George J ^a   Burt, Michael E ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE; MALIGNANT TERATOMA; MEDIASTINUM MASS; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL CANCER; STERNOTOMY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; SYNDROME; TERATOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030846135     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)00581-X     Document Type: Article

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