Primary mediastinal leiomyoma: a case report

Leiomyoma of the mediastinum is rare. We report a case of a 57-year-old woman with a cervical mass diving to the intrathoracic. Chest radiography and computed tomography revealed a mass in the right superior mediastinum. The tumor was enucleated by cervicotomy. Histologically, the tumor was diagnose...

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Autores principales: Ouadnouni, Yassine, Achir, Abdellah, Bekarsabein, Salma, Bouchikh, Mohammed, Smahi, Mohammed, Msougar, Yassine, Mahassini, Najat, Benosman, Abdellatif
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740108/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830084
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8555
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author Ouadnouni, Yassine
Achir, Abdellah
Bekarsabein, Salma
Bouchikh, Mohammed
Smahi, Mohammed
Msougar, Yassine
Mahassini, Najat
Benosman, Abdellatif
author_facet Ouadnouni, Yassine
Achir, Abdellah
Bekarsabein, Salma
Bouchikh, Mohammed
Smahi, Mohammed
Msougar, Yassine
Mahassini, Najat
Benosman, Abdellatif
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description Leiomyoma of the mediastinum is rare. We report a case of a 57-year-old woman with a cervical mass diving to the intrathoracic. Chest radiography and computed tomography revealed a mass in the right superior mediastinum. The tumor was enucleated by cervicotomy. Histologically, the tumor was diagnosed as leiomyoma.
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spelling pubmed-27401082009-10-14 Primary mediastinal leiomyoma: a case report Ouadnouni, Yassine Achir, Abdellah Bekarsabein, Salma Bouchikh, Mohammed Smahi, Mohammed Msougar, Yassine Mahassini, Najat Benosman, Abdellatif Cases J Case report Leiomyoma of the mediastinum is rare. We report a case of a 57-year-old woman with a cervical mass diving to the intrathoracic. Chest radiography and computed tomography revealed a mass in the right superior mediastinum. The tumor was enucleated by cervicotomy. Histologically, the tumor was diagnosed as leiomyoma. Cases Network Ltd 2009-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2740108/ /pubmed/19830084 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8555 Text en © 2009 Ouadnouni et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ouadnouni, Yassine
Achir, Abdellah
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Benosman, Abdellatif
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740108/
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