Spontaneous regression of a desmoid tumour
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Desmoid tumour of the chest.
B. H., a 21-year-old housewife, was first seen on February 27, 1956, complaining of a gradually enlarging painless nodule in the left chest wall of six months' duration. No history of trauma, inflammation, or rapid growth could be elicited. The patient had experienced a normal pregnancy and delivery two years previously. When first seen she had had amenorrhoea and morning nausea for two months....
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0301-620X,2044-5377
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620x.68b5.3782245