Best cases from the AFIP: Thymoma

Radiographics

Volumn 22, Issue SPEC. ISS, 2002, Pages

  Santana, Leopoldo ^a,b   Givica, Amparo ^a   Camacho, Carmen ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO INSULAR DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b C/ Tomas Morales No 97 6o D ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Mediastinum, neoplasms, 67.3154, 67.3155; Thymus, neoplasms, 67.3154, 67.3155

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN; THYMOMA;

ADULT; CHEST PAIN; HUMANS; MALE; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036777426     PISSN: 15271323     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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