Thymoma in middle mediastinum that induced tracheal compression—Case report and literature review

BACKGROUND: A thymoma, an epithelial neoplasm of the thymus, mainly occurs in the anterior mediastinum, while few are seen in the middle mediastinum. CASE PRESENTATION: An 83-year-old male was referred for an incidental mass in the middle mediastinum. He had severe dementia and denied symptoms. Our...

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Autores principales: Sakurai, Teiko, Sakamoto, Tetsuki, Wakasa, Tomoko, Ohta, Yoshio, Shiono, Hiroyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5198868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28024212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2016.12.008

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