Mature cystic teratoma with malignant transformation to adenocarcinoma

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1971-1973

  Muramatsu, Takashi ^a   Nishii, Tatsuhiko ^a   Ohmori, Kazumitsu ^a   Shiono, Motomi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERATOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; TERATOMA;

EID: 79957680016     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.11.025     Document Type: Article

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