Persistent atelectasis and recurrent pneumonia in the same location should raise suspicion of congenital anomalies or obstructing lesions of the bronchus leading to the affected area. We present an 8-year-old black female with a history of recurrent fever, cough, atelectasis of the right middle and
Endoscopic resection of a large granular cell tumor of the esophagus
โ Scribed by Costas Fotiadis; Evangelos N. Manolis; Theodoros G. Troupis; Vassilis G. Gorgoulis; Michail N. Sechas
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 273 KB
- Volume
- 75
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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