Benign metastasizing leiomyoma: A rare cause of multiple pulmonary nodules

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Rege, Aparna S ^a   Snyder, Justin A ^a   Scott, Walter J ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESMIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; KI 67 ANTIGEN; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN METASTASIZING LEIOMYOMA; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MESOTHELIUM CELL; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; PARITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; ROBOTICS; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SPINDLE CELL; THORACOTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVICITIS; UTERUS MYOMA; WEDGE RESECTION;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LEIOMYOMATOSIS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; UTERUS;

EID: 84861587103     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.12.047     Document Type: Article

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