An unusual case of fatty posterior mediastinal ganglioneuroma

Ganglioneuromas, which arise from neural crest cells, are typically seen in adolescent and young adults. We describe an unusual case of posterior mediastinal ganglioneuroma with a large fatty component in a middle-aged male. This imaging feature has only been reported in five published manuscripts i...

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Autores principales: Abdelazim, Abdelrahman M., Patel, Smita A, Haji-Momenian, Shawn, Almira-Suarez, MI, Taheri, M Reza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6159259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363300
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150482
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author Abdelazim, Abdelrahman M.
Patel, Smita A
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description Ganglioneuromas, which arise from neural crest cells, are typically seen in adolescent and young adults. We describe an unusual case of posterior mediastinal ganglioneuroma with a large fatty component in a middle-aged male. This imaging feature has only been reported in five published manuscripts in the English literature.
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spelling pubmed-61592592018-10-25 An unusual case of fatty posterior mediastinal ganglioneuroma Abdelazim, Abdelrahman M. Patel, Smita A Haji-Momenian, Shawn Almira-Suarez, MI Taheri, M Reza BJR Case Rep Case Report Ganglioneuromas, which arise from neural crest cells, are typically seen in adolescent and young adults. We describe an unusual case of posterior mediastinal ganglioneuroma with a large fatty component in a middle-aged male. This imaging feature has only been reported in five published manuscripts in the English literature. The British Institute of Radiology 2016-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6159259/ /pubmed/30363300 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150482 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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An unusual case of fatty posterior mediastinal ganglioneuroma
title An unusual case of fatty posterior mediastinal ganglioneuroma
title_full An unusual case of fatty posterior mediastinal ganglioneuroma
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title_short An unusual case of fatty posterior mediastinal ganglioneuroma
title_sort unusual case of fatty posterior mediastinal ganglioneuroma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6159259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363300
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150482
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