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Case report| Volume 32, ISSUE 6, P1010-1013, December 1952

Primary leiomyosarcoma of the lung treated by pneumonecotomy

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      Abstract

      • 1.
        1. A case of leiomyosarcoma of the lung is reported.
      • 2.
        2. The patient was well and showed no signs of disease two years after resection.
      • 3.
        3. It is believed that this is the third case of primary leiomyosarcoma of the lung on record, and the first to be treated successfully by pneumonectomy.
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