Thymolipoma simulating cardiomegaly: a clinicopathological rarity.
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Thymolipoma simulating cardiomegaly: use of computed tomography in diagnosis.
A 22-year-old woman was originally referred to a cardiologist because of an abnormal chest radiograph (fig 1) obtained during a routine medical examination. The patient admitted to having had increasing dyspnoea for about one year and for this reason had discontinued her studies as a nurse six months previously. At the cardiological examination pulse, blood pressure, heart sounds were normal, a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.32.1.116