Rare fibrosing granulomatous mediastinitis of tuberculosis with involvement of the transverse sinus

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 836-837

  Zhang, Chong ^a   Yao, Minhua ^b   Yu, Zhefeng ^a   Jiang, Lijun ^a   Jiang, Xiaoying ^a   Ni, Yiming ^a  

^a First Affiliated Hospital   (China)

^b Children's Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECG ABNORMALITY; FIBROSING GRANULOMATOUS MEDIASTINITIS; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; STERNOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA, THORACIC; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; RARE DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 33847054430     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2006.11.023     Document Type: Article

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