Intrathoracic Psammomatous Melanotic Schwannoma Associated With the Carney Complex

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 657-660

  Mees, Soeren Torge ^a   Spieker, Tilmann ^b   Eltze, Elke ^b   Brockmann, Jens ^a   Senninger, Norbert ^a   Bruewer, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CARNEY COMPLEX; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSAMMOMATOUS MELANOTIC SCHWANNOMA; RARE DISEASE; SURGICAL APPROACH; TISSUE SECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CUSHING SYNDROME; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; NEURILEMMOMA; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; SYNDROME; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 47149085513     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.02.007     Document Type: Article

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