Two cases of idiopathic azygos vein aneurysm resected by totally thoracoscopic surgery
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Idiopathic azygos vein aneurysm: a rare cause of mediastinal mass.
Venous aneurysm of the azygos arch is a very rare cause of mediastinal mass and is usually an incidental finding on chest radiography. Nowadays the diagnosis is made by non-invasive tests such as thoracic CT scanning and/or magnetic resonance imaging. The case is described of an asymptomatic woman in whom a mediastinal mass due to an azygos vein aneurysm was diagnosed by non-invasive procedures...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the Japanese Association for Chest Surgery
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0919-0945,1881-4158
DOI: 10.2995/jacsurg.29.101