Thoracoscopic resection of middle mediastinal noninvasive thymoma: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 787-789

  Nakamura, Hiroshige ^a   Adachi, Yoshin ^a   Fujioka, Shinji ^a   Miwa, Ken ^a   Haruki, Tomohiro ^a   Taniguchi, Yuji ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mediastinum; Thoracoscopy; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MEDIASTINUM; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINDLE CELL; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMOMA; TUMOR VOLUME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; THORACOSCOPY; THYMOMA;

EID: 34548151825     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-007-3486-8     Document Type: Article

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