Pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyoma in a postmenopausal woman

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 338, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 72-74

  Moon, Hee ^a   Park, Seoung Ju ^a   Lee, Heung Bum ^a   Kim, So Ri ^a   Choe, Yeong Hun ^a   Chung, Myoung Ja ^a   Jin, Gong Yong ^a   Lee, Yong Chul ^a  

^a Chonbuk National University Medical School   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Benign metastasizing leiomyoma; Lung; Postmenopause

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ADULT; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; FEMALE; FEVER; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOMA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; MUSCLE TUMOR; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PLEURA FLUID; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SUPPURATION; THORACOCENTESIS; THORACOTOMY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; UTERUS CANCER;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 68849091119     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e31819c7160     Document Type: Article

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