True thymic hyperplasia associated with severe thymic cyst bleeding in a newborn: case report and review of the literature

Annals of Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 358-362

  Eifinger, Frank ^a   Ernestus, Karin ^b   Benz Bohm, Gabriele ^b   Körber, Friederike ^b   Hünseler, Christoph ^a   Hekmat, Khosro ^b   Marx, Alexander ^c   Roth, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mediastinal mass; SIDS; Thymic cyst; True thymic hyperplasia

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NEONATAL HEMORRHAGE; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS CYST; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA; ULTRASOUND;

HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDIASTINAL CYST; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN; THYMUS GLAND; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA;

EID: 34548489169     PISSN: 10929134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anndiagpath.2006.04.007     Document Type: Article

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