Pediatric Chest II. Benign Tumors and Cysts

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 645-658

  Petroze, Robin ^a   McGahren, Eugene D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Benign thoracic tumors; Mediastinal tumors; Pediatric thoracic tumors; Thoracic tumors

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BLEOMYCIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXYCYCLINE; ETHIBLOC; GLUCOSE; IODINE; PICIBANIL; TETRACYCLINE;

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; CHONDROSARCOMA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYST; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ESOPHAGEAL DUPLICATION CYST; ESOPHAGUS CYST; EWING SARCOMA; FIBROSARCOMA; GERM CELL TUMOR; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LEIOMYOMA; LUNG CYST; LUNG LYMPHANGIOMA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPHANGIOMA; LYMPHEDEMA; LYMPHOMA; MEDIASTINUM; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROGENIC TUMOR; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOCHONDROMA; PERICARDIUM CYST; PLEURA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX TUMOR; THORAX WALL; THYMOMA; THYMUS CYST; TUMOR BIOPSY;

BRONCHOGENIC CYST; CHILD; ESOPHAGEAL CYST; HUMANS; LYMPHANGIOMA; LYMPHOMA; MEDIASTINAL CYST; MYOFIBROMA; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; NEUROFIBROMA; OSTEOCHONDROMA; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THYMOMA;

EID: 84861012453     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: 15583171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2012.03.014     Document Type: Review

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