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Complete thoracoscopic enucleation of giant leiomyoma of the esophagus: a case report and review of the literature

Esophageal leiomyoma is one of the most common types of benign esophagus tumors. Giant leiomyoma of the esophagus is traditionally treated by open thoracotomy, which has large incision. We report a case of complete thoracoscopic enucleation of giant leiomyoma in a chinese patient.

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Autores principales: Hu, XiaoXing, Lee, Hui
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3936798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24528601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-9-34
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description Esophageal leiomyoma is one of the most common types of benign esophagus tumors. Giant leiomyoma of the esophagus is traditionally treated by open thoracotomy, which has large incision. We report a case of complete thoracoscopic enucleation of giant leiomyoma in a chinese patient.
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spelling pubmed-39367982014-02-28 Complete thoracoscopic enucleation of giant leiomyoma of the esophagus: a case report and review of the literature Hu, XiaoXing Lee, Hui J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report Esophageal leiomyoma is one of the most common types of benign esophagus tumors. Giant leiomyoma of the esophagus is traditionally treated by open thoracotomy, which has large incision. We report a case of complete thoracoscopic enucleation of giant leiomyoma in a chinese patient. BioMed Central 2014-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3936798/ /pubmed/24528601 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-9-34 Text en Copyright © 2014 Hu and Lee; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Case Report
Hu, XiaoXing
Lee, Hui
Complete thoracoscopic enucleation of giant leiomyoma of the esophagus: a case report and review of the literature
title Complete thoracoscopic enucleation of giant leiomyoma of the esophagus: a case report and review of the literature
title_full Complete thoracoscopic enucleation of giant leiomyoma of the esophagus: a case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Complete thoracoscopic enucleation of giant leiomyoma of the esophagus: a case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Complete thoracoscopic enucleation of giant leiomyoma of the esophagus: a case report and review of the literature
title_short Complete thoracoscopic enucleation of giant leiomyoma of the esophagus: a case report and review of the literature
title_sort complete thoracoscopic enucleation of giant leiomyoma of the esophagus: a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3936798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24528601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-9-34
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