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Pages 72-75 (March - April 1981)
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Vol. 17. Issue 2.
Pages 72-75 (March - April 1981)
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Seminoma de mediastino
Seminoma of the mediastinum
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J. Garcia S. Giron, J.M. Rodriguez Paniagua, F. Canseco Gonzalez, G. Varela Simo, C. Hernandez Ortiz, M. Casillas Pajuelo
Servicio de Cirugía Torácica de la C. S. La Paz. Madrid
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Se analizan los aspectos clínicos, radiológicos, histopatológicos y terapéuticos de un seminoma de localización mediastínica, diagnosticado mediante mediastinotomía anterior, comparándolos con la literatura revisada.

En el caso que nos ocupa y tras los estudios de extensión practicados se trató con radioterapia, obteniendo una evolución clínica y radiológica satisfactoria transcurridos dos años de su diagnóstico.

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The authors analyze the clinical, radiologic, histopathologic and therapeutic aspects of a seminoma of mediastinic location which was diagnozed by means of anterior mediastinotomy, and compare these aspects with those of other cases that have appeared in medical bibliography.

This case, after studies of the extensión, was treated with radiotherapy, obtaining satisfactory radiologic and clinical evolution at two years from the diagnosis.

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