Teratoma occupying the left hemithorax

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Zisis, Charalambos ^a,b   Rontogianni, Dimitra ^a   Stratakos, Grigorios ^a   Voutetakis, Konstantinos ^a   Skevis, Konstantinos ^a   Argiriou, Mihalis ^a   Bellenis, Ion ^a  

^a EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SURGICAL APPROACH; TERATOMA; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX TUMOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 28544439329     PISSN: 14777819     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-3-76     Document Type: Article

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