Elastofibroma Dorsi as Differential Diagnosis in Tumors of the Thoracic Wall

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1501-1504

  Schafmayer, Clemens ^a   Kahlke, Volker ^a   Leuschner, Ivo ^b   Pai, Madhava ^c   Tepel, Juergen ^a  

^a Department for General Surgery and Thoracic Surgery ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELASTOFIBROMA DORSI; EXCISION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SCAPULA; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; THORAX; THORAX WALL TUMOR; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTIC TISSUE; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HUMANS; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; THORACIC WALL;

EID: 33748755274     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.10.049     Document Type: Article

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