Ectopic intrapleural thymoma: a rare location in the thoracic cavity

We present a patient with a large thymoma on the right thoracic cavity developing from the visceral pleura. This is a rare location for this tumour, and only a few had been reported to date in the literature.

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Autores principales: Lopez-Marco, Ana, Al-Zuhir, Naail, Kornaszewska, Malgorzata
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4702014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26738510
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjv166
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Al-Zuhir, Naail
Kornaszewska, Malgorzata
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spelling pubmed-47020142016-01-07 Ectopic intrapleural thymoma: a rare location in the thoracic cavity Lopez-Marco, Ana Al-Zuhir, Naail Kornaszewska, Malgorzata J Surg Case Rep Case Reports We present a patient with a large thymoma on the right thoracic cavity developing from the visceral pleura. This is a rare location for this tumour, and only a few had been reported to date in the literature. Oxford University Press 2016-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4702014/ /pubmed/26738510 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjv166 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author 2016. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Lopez-Marco, Ana
Al-Zuhir, Naail
Kornaszewska, Malgorzata
Ectopic intrapleural thymoma: a rare location in the thoracic cavity
title Ectopic intrapleural thymoma: a rare location in the thoracic cavity
title_full Ectopic intrapleural thymoma: a rare location in the thoracic cavity
title_fullStr Ectopic intrapleural thymoma: a rare location in the thoracic cavity
title_full_unstemmed Ectopic intrapleural thymoma: a rare location in the thoracic cavity
title_short Ectopic intrapleural thymoma: a rare location in the thoracic cavity
title_sort ectopic intrapleural thymoma: a rare location in the thoracic cavity
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4702014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26738510
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjv166
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