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The Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation

April 2015

Intrathoracic desmoid tumor arising at a distance from thoracotomy sites after thoracoscopic segmentectomy: report of a case.

Author Information

Kenji Tetsuka,Shinichi Yamamoto,Shunsuke Endo,Tetsuya Endo

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi 329-0498, Japan.

Publication

Summary

We report a case involving an intrathoracic desmoid tumor in a 68-year-old woman who had undergone video-assisted thoracoscopic right basal segmentectomy for lung cancer 1 year earlier.

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