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Desmoid tumour of the chest.
B. H., a 21-year-old housewife, was first seen on February 27, 1956, complaining of a gradually enlarging painless nodule in the left chest wall of six months' duration. No history of trauma, inflammation, or rapid growth could be elicited. The patient had experienced a normal pregnancy and delivery two years previously. When first seen she had had amenorrhoea and morning nausea for two months....
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1010-7940,1873-734X
DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezx515