Ectopic Pleural Thymoma Presenting as a Giant Mass in the Thoracic Cavity

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 315-317

  Yamazaki, Koji ^a   Yoshino, Ichiro ^a   Oba, Taro ^a   Yohena, Tomofumi ^a   Kameyama, Toshifumi ^a   Tagawa, Tetsuzo ^a   Kawano, Daigo ^a   Koso, Hidenori ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEURA CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; THORACIC CAVITY; THYMOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; THYMOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845510921     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.03.092     Document Type: Article

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