Thymoma of the Middle Mediastinum

Thymoma is a common anterior mediastinal mass, although thymomas have occasionally been found in the neck, pulmonary hillus, or posterior mediastinum. But a thymoma within the middle mediastinum has rarely been reported. We report a thymoma arising in the middle mediastinum with a review of the lite...

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Autores principales: Chung, Su Ryeun, Kim, In Sook, Kim, Jhingook
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3413836/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22880176
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2012.45.4.267
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description Thymoma is a common anterior mediastinal mass, although thymomas have occasionally been found in the neck, pulmonary hillus, or posterior mediastinum. But a thymoma within the middle mediastinum has rarely been reported. We report a thymoma arising in the middle mediastinum with a review of the literature.
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spelling pubmed-34138362012-08-09 Thymoma of the Middle Mediastinum Chung, Su Ryeun Kim, In Sook Kim, Jhingook Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Case Report Thymoma is a common anterior mediastinal mass, although thymomas have occasionally been found in the neck, pulmonary hillus, or posterior mediastinum. But a thymoma within the middle mediastinum has rarely been reported. We report a thymoma arising in the middle mediastinum with a review of the literature. Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2012-08 2012-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3413836/ /pubmed/22880176 http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2012.45.4.267 Text en © The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2012. All right reserved. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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