Malignant fibrous histiocytoma originating from the thymus

General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 606-609

  Imai, Kazuhiro ^a   Saito, Hajime ^a   Minamiya, Yoshihiro ^a   Hashimoto, Masaji ^b   Kimura, Yoshihiko ^c   Ogawa, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Yuri Kumiai General Hospital   (Japan)

^c Akita Kumiai General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Malignant fibrous histiocytoma; Mediastinal tumor; Thymus

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS;

BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEINS; HISTIOCYTOMA, MALIGNANT FIBROUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 57649149423     PISSN: 18636705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11748-008-0305-0     Document Type: Article

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