Ectopic Hepatic Tissue Presented as a Posterior Mediastinal Mass

We present a young patient with respiratory complaints that was found to have a mass in her right posterior mediastinum. The mass was diagnosed to be ectopic histologically unremarkable hepatic tissue. We have also reviewed several of the few intrathoracic ectopic liver cases in the literature, alon...

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Autores principales: Rozen, Eugene, Stephens, Gary, Asarian, Armand, Xiao, Philip
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Scholarly Research Network 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21991495
http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2011/120690
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author Rozen, Eugene
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Xiao, Philip
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description We present a young patient with respiratory complaints that was found to have a mass in her right posterior mediastinum. The mass was diagnosed to be ectopic histologically unremarkable hepatic tissue. We have also reviewed several of the few intrathoracic ectopic liver cases in the literature, along with a brief discussion of the significance of such a finding.
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spelling pubmed-31683832011-10-11 Ectopic Hepatic Tissue Presented as a Posterior Mediastinal Mass Rozen, Eugene Stephens, Gary Asarian, Armand Xiao, Philip ISRN Gastroenterol Case Report We present a young patient with respiratory complaints that was found to have a mass in her right posterior mediastinum. The mass was diagnosed to be ectopic histologically unremarkable hepatic tissue. We have also reviewed several of the few intrathoracic ectopic liver cases in the literature, along with a brief discussion of the significance of such a finding. International Scholarly Research Network 2011 2010-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3168383/ /pubmed/21991495 http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2011/120690 Text en Copyright © 2011 Eugene Rozen et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rozen, Eugene
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Xiao, Philip
Ectopic Hepatic Tissue Presented as a Posterior Mediastinal Mass
title Ectopic Hepatic Tissue Presented as a Posterior Mediastinal Mass
title_full Ectopic Hepatic Tissue Presented as a Posterior Mediastinal Mass
title_fullStr Ectopic Hepatic Tissue Presented as a Posterior Mediastinal Mass
title_full_unstemmed Ectopic Hepatic Tissue Presented as a Posterior Mediastinal Mass
title_short Ectopic Hepatic Tissue Presented as a Posterior Mediastinal Mass
title_sort ectopic hepatic tissue presented as a posterior mediastinal mass
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21991495
http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2011/120690
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