Intrapulmonary metastasis developing eighteen years after complete resection of thymoma

Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 289-292

  Uemura, Mamoru ^a   Higashiyama, Masahiko ^a   Okami, Jiro ^a   Oda, Kazuyuki ^a   Takami, Koji ^a   Kodama, Ken ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Late recurrence; Pulmonary metastasis; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; STERNOTOMY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMOMA; THYMUS SURGERY;

EID: 33748644726     PISSN: 13444964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00022255     Document Type: Article

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