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A ruptured giant mediastinal mature teratoma mimicking an encapsulated empyema

A female patient with a right-sided encapsulated pleural effusion was misdiagnosed preoperatively as having an encapsulated empyema. However, a giant mass in the anterior mediastinum was found via thoracoscopy, and a mature teratoma was detected based on the pathological result. Herein we report thi...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Junjie, Zhu, Xiaobo, Jiang, Minyan, Lv, Yajun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8782231/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34999805
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icvts/ivab222