Journal of the Chinese Medical Association
Volume 69, Issue 1 , Pages 37-41 , January 2006

Intrathoracic Paraspinal Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor

  • Ruay-Sheng Lai

      Affiliations

    • Division of Chest Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dr. Ruay-Sheng Lai, Division of Chest Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, 386, Ta-Chung 1st Road, Kaohsiung 813, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • ,
  • Shong-Ling Lin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • ,
  • Shu-Shong Hsu

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neurosurgery, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • ,
  • Min-Ting Wu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Received 15 March 2005 ,Accepted 4 August 2005.

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PII: S1726-4901(09)70109-1

doi: 10.1016/S1726-4901(09)70109-1

Journal of the Chinese Medical Association
Volume 69, Issue 1 , Pages 37-41 , January 2006

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