Pulmonary Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma from the Uterus in a Postmenopausal Woman: Report of a Case

Surgery Today

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-57

  Funakoshi, Yasunobu ^a,c   Sawabata, Noriyoshi ^a,c   Takeda, Shin Ichi ^a   Hayakawa, Masanobu ^b   Okumura, Yoshitomo ^a   Maeda, Hajime ^a,c  

^a TONEYAMA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOYONAKA MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Benign metastasizing leiomyoma; Postmenopausal; Uterine leiomyoma

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; HORMONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; LEIOMYOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; OVARIECTOMY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERUS MYOMA;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; POSTMENOPAUSE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0346970676     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-003-2627-y     Document Type: Article

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