Recurrent mediastinal liposarcoma twenty years after the initial operation: Case report

Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 407-409

  Matsubara, Hirochika ^a   Mizutani, Eiki ^a   Okuwaki, Hideto ^a   Nagasaka, Satoshi ^a   Miyauchi, Yoshihiro ^a   Oyachi, Noboru ^a   Shindo, Shunya ^a   Dobashi, Yoh ^a   Matsumoto, Masahiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Liposarcoma; Mediastinal tumor; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LIPOSARCOMA; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; TIME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

HUMANS; LIPOSARCOMA; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 40949118549     PISSN: 13411098     EISSN: 21861005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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