Seeding of stage I thymoma into the chest wall 12 years after needle biopsy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 323-324

  Kattach, Hassan ^a   Hasan, Shafqat ^a   Clelland, Colin ^b   Pillai, Ravi ^a,b  

^a Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMUS LYMPHOMA; TISSUE SECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM SEEDING; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; THORACIC WALL; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 11144286050     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2003.08.004     Document Type: Article

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