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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2005;28:640
© 2005 Elsevier Science NL

Images in cardio-thoracic surgery

An accessory spleen misrecognized as an intrathoracic mass

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Cancer Research Institute, Xenotransplantation Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, South Korea

Received 14 April 2005; received in revised form 31 May 2005; accepted 6 June 2005.

^* Corresponding author. Tel.: +82 2 2072 3161; fax: +82 2 765 7117. (Email: ytkim@snu.ac.kr).

Key Words: Accessory spleen • Intrathoracic mass • Diaphragm

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A 31-year-old woman was referred for an incidentally detected intrathoracic mass (Fig. 1 ). At the video-assisted surgery, we found an . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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