Middle mediastinal thymoma

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 639-640

  Kojima, Kenji ^a   Yokoi, Kohei ^a   Matsuguma, Haruhisa ^a   Kondo, Tetsuro ^a   Kamiyama, Yukari ^a   Mori, Kiyoshi ^a   Igarashi, Seiji ^a  

^a TOCHIGI CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDIASTINUM MASS; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; THYMOMA; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0036740683     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mtc.2002.125167     Document Type: Article

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