Anterior chest wall mass in a 46-year-old woman.

Chest

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, The Long Island Campus of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New Hyde Park, NY 11042, USA.

Published: May 2002

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