Rebound Thymic Hyperplasia after Chemotherapy in a Patient Treated for Pulmonary Metastases

Acta Chirurgica Belgica

Volumn , Issue 6, 1999, Pages 312-314

  Hendriks, J M H ^a   Van Schil, P E Y ^a   Schrijvers, D ^a   Van Marck, E ^a   Eyskens, E ^a  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Mediastinal tumours; Mediastinum; Metastasectomy; Pulmonary metastases; Thymic hyperplasia; Thymus

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DERMATOFIBROMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MUSCLE TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MUSCLE NEOPLASMS; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033255250     PISSN: 00015458     EISSN: 25770160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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