Pediatric thoracic lymphangiomatosis: Is chest wall resection too radical?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 695-697

  Papagiannopoulos, Kostas ^a,b   Van Raemdonck, Dirk E M ^a   De Boeck, Karen ^a   Lerut, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHACRYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; TISSUE ADHESIVE;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHYLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; DIET THERAPY; EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHANGIOMATOSIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SCOLIOSIS; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX TUMOR; THORAX WALL; THORAX WALL RECONSTRUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0442292362     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)01146-9     Document Type: Article

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