A 37-year-old pregnant woman presented at 18 weeks' gestation with unrelenting chest and shoulder pain, massive pleural effusion, and a large thoracic mass. Biopsy revealed an undifferentiated sarcomatous pleural mesothelioma. Malignant mesothelioma is a rare thoracic malignancy, which has not been
Glycosaminoglycan in malignant pleural mesothelioma
โ Scribed by Takashi Nakano; Junji Fujii; Shinsuke Tamura; Yoshiki Amuro; Kenji Nabeshima; Takeshi Horai; Toshikazu Hada; Kazuya Higashino
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 606 KB
- Volume
- 57
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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