Synchronous multicentric thymona: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 597-599

  Yoneda, Satoshi ^a   Matsuzoe, Daisuke ^a   Kawakami, Takehito ^a   Tashiro, Yukie ^a   Shirahama, Hiroshi ^a   Ohkubo, Koichi ^a   Kawahara, Katsunobu ^b   Shirakusa, Takayuki ^b  

^a Imakiire General Hospital   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extended thymectomy; Multicentric; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA;

EID: 3042836377     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-004-2756-y     Document Type: Article

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