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I Takanami1, T Imamura, Y Yamamoto
1First Department of Surgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Scandinavian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
Extrapulmonary small-cell carcinoma is uncommon. We report a rare case of small-cell carcinoma located in the mediastinum. The patient is still alive 6 years after combined local resection and chemotherapy. This seems to be the first reported case with such long survival.
