The place of clinical features and stanford chest radiography in evaluation of mediastinal masses

West African Journal of Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 156-160

  Adegboye, V O ^a   Brimmo, A I ^a   Adebo, O A ^a   Ogunseyinde, O O ^a   Obajimi, M O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Chest radiographs; Clinical features; Evaluation; Mediastinal masses

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NIGERIA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; STERNOTOMY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN SYNDROME; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMOMA; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COUGH; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HOARSENESS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PAIN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0142091719     PISSN: 0189160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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