Avoiding invasive surgical procedures for a slow‐growing asymptomatic huge anterior mediastinal lipoma under watchful waiting

A mass shadow in the right lower lung field was detected by chest X‐ray in a 79‐year‐old woman, which was eventually diagnosed as anterior mediastinal lipoma. She remained under watchful waiting without surgery for 9 years without developing symptoms, even though the lipoma had grown to an extremely...

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Autores principales: Motomura, So, Yamashita, Shun, Tago, Masaki, Yamashita, Shu‐ichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8684580/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34976394
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5190
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author Motomura, So
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description A mass shadow in the right lower lung field was detected by chest X‐ray in a 79‐year‐old woman, which was eventually diagnosed as anterior mediastinal lipoma. She remained under watchful waiting without surgery for 9 years without developing symptoms, even though the lipoma had grown to an extremely large size.
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spelling pubmed-86845802021-12-30 Avoiding invasive surgical procedures for a slow‐growing asymptomatic huge anterior mediastinal lipoma under watchful waiting Motomura, So Yamashita, Shun Tago, Masaki Yamashita, Shu‐ichi Clin Case Rep Clinical Images A mass shadow in the right lower lung field was detected by chest X‐ray in a 79‐year‐old woman, which was eventually diagnosed as anterior mediastinal lipoma. She remained under watchful waiting without surgery for 9 years without developing symptoms, even though the lipoma had grown to an extremely large size. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8684580/ /pubmed/34976394 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5190 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Avoiding invasive surgical procedures for a slow‐growing asymptomatic huge anterior mediastinal lipoma under watchful waiting
title_full Avoiding invasive surgical procedures for a slow‐growing asymptomatic huge anterior mediastinal lipoma under watchful waiting
title_fullStr Avoiding invasive surgical procedures for a slow‐growing asymptomatic huge anterior mediastinal lipoma under watchful waiting
title_full_unstemmed Avoiding invasive surgical procedures for a slow‐growing asymptomatic huge anterior mediastinal lipoma under watchful waiting
title_short Avoiding invasive surgical procedures for a slow‐growing asymptomatic huge anterior mediastinal lipoma under watchful waiting
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8684580/
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