Ectopic cervico-mediastinal thymoma confirmed by flow cytometric analysis of tumor-derived lymphocytes

Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 35-39

  Iwasaki, Teruo ^a   Nakagawa, Katsuhiro ^a   Yasukawa, Motoaki ^a   Shiono, Hiroyuki ^b   Nagano, Teruaki ^a   Kawahara, Kunimitsu ^a  

^a OSAKA PREFECTURAL MEDICAL CENTER FOR RESPIRATORY AND ALLERGIC DISEASES   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ectopic thymoma; Flow cytometry; Magnetic resonance imaging; Superior vena cava syndrome; Surgical resection

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; STERNOTOMY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN SYNDROME; THYMOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; VEIN DILATATION;

AGED; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; SUPERIOR VENA CAVA SYNDROME; THORACOTOMY; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 32844457577     PISSN: 13444964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02743783     Document Type: Article

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