Pericardial involvement by thymomas: Entirely intrapericardial thymoma and a pericardial metastasis of thymoma with glomeruloid vascular proliferations

Pathology and Oncology Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 160-163

  Blaker, Hendrik ^a   Dragoje, Susanne ^b   Laissue, Jean Albert ^b   Otto, Herwart F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Glomeruloid structures; Pericardium; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PERICARDIUM; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; THORACOTOMY; THYMOMA; TUMOR GROWTH;

EID: 0032791986     PISSN: 12194956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/paor.1999.0170     Document Type: Article

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