A rare presentation of a huge mature mediastinal teratoma with right lung cavitation

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Pattnaik, Manoj Kumar ^a   Majhi, Paresh Chandra ^a   Nayak, Anil Kumar ^a   Senapati, Debadutta ^a  

^a SCB MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG SURGERY; MEDIASTINAL TERATOMA; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STERNOTOMY; TERATOMA; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84901358406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2014-203835     Document Type: Article

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