Abstract
We report the radiology and pathology findings on a patient with an incidental posterior
mediastinal ganglioneuroma and review the literature on this uncommon tumor.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: May 22, 2009
Accepted:
March 13,
2009
Received:
February 28,
2009
Footnotes
☆This work was presented at the monthly Radiology–Pathology Conference at Winthrop-University Hospital.
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© 2009 Elsevier Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
