Mediastinal Aortosympathetic Paraganglioma: Report of Two Cases

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages e49-e51

  Ramos, Ricard ^a   Moya, Juan ^a   Villalonga, Rosa ^a   Morera, Ricard ^a   Ferrer, Gerardo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; CHEMODECTOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; PARAGANGLIOMA, EXTRA-ADRENAL; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 42949165559     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: 18165370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/021849230701500426     Document Type: Article

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