Dermoid cyst of the spleen: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 660-662

  Nakao, Atsunori ^a   Saito, Shinya ^a   Yamano, Taketoshi ^a   Takakura, Norihisa ^a   Isozaki, Hiroshi ^a   Notohara, Kenji ^a   Tanaka, Noriaki ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dermoid cyst of the spleen; Electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCHOOL CHILD; SPLEEN CYST; SPLENECTOMY; TERATOMA;

EID: 0032789361     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02482996     Document Type: Article

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