Thoracic splenosis: Mimicry of a neurogenic tumor

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1155-1156

  Bizekis, Costas S ^b   Pua, Bradley ^b   Glassman, Lawrence R ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DESCENDING AORTA; GUNSHOT INJURY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROGENIC TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0038012837     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mtc.2003.312     Document Type: Article

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