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Giant thymoma presenting as a large bilateral intrathoracic mass: A case report and a comparison between median sternotomy and hemiclamshell approach
INTRODUCTION: Thymoma is an epithelial tumor that commonly lies in the anterior mediastinum. It rarely extends to the pleural cavities. There is no standard approach for resecting similar giant thymomas. CASE PRESENTATION: An eighteen-year-old woman presented with a six-month history of progressive...
Autores principales: | Daoud, Daoud, Darwish, Bassam, Zahra, Sarmad, Qaddoura, Monir |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8455364/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34584686 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2021.102859 |
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