Hemothorax due to extramedullary erythropoietic masses

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 323-324

  Tassiopoulos, Stergios ^a,b   Konstantopoulos, Kostas ^a   Rombos, Yannis ^a   Aessopos, Athanassios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYUREA;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLEEDING; BLOOD SUBSTITUTION; CASE REPORT; CHELATION THERAPY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTECTOMY; EXTRAMEDULLARY HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOTHORAX; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURAL PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPLENECTOMY; THORACOCENTESIS;

EID: 1642564195     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00754-9     Document Type: Article

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