A case of pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma surviving 10 years without treatment

Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 432-435

  Okamura, Kyoko ^a,c   Ohshima, Tsukasa ^a   Nakano, Ryuji ^b   Ouchi, Hiroshi ^a   Takayama, Koichi ^c   Nakanishi, Yoichi ^c  

^a Department of Respiratory Medicine ^*  (Japan)

^b KYUSHU KOSEI NENKIN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flourodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography; Intravascular bronchioloalveolar tumor; Multiple nodular shadows; Pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MORTALITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

FEMALE; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA, EPITHELIOID; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78751640078     PISSN: 13411098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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