Consequences of a Wait-and-See Strategy for Benign Metastasizing Leiomyomatosis of the Lung

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 613-614

  Hoetzenecker, Konrad ^a   Ankersmit, Hendrik J ^a   Aigner, Clemens ^a   Lichtenauer, Michael ^a   Kreuzer, Soeren ^a   Hacker, Stefan ^a   Hoetzenecker, Wolfram ^b   Lang, György ^a   Klepetko, Walter ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BENIGN METASTASIZING LEIOMYOMATOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEIOMYOMATOSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR BIOPSY;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOMATOSIS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OBSERVATION; PNEUMONECTOMY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 58249140091     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.06.052     Document Type: Article

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