Heart, Lung and Circulation
Volume 18, Issue 5 , Pages 363-364 , October 2009

Pancoast Hydatid Cyst Leading to Horner Syndrome: Thoracic Hydatidosis

  • Sedat Ziyade

      Affiliations

    • Bezm-i Alem Vakif Gureba Training and Research Hospital, Thoracic Surgery Clinic, Turkey
    • ,
  • Omer Soysal

      Affiliations

    • Bezm-i Alem Vakif Gureba Training and Research Hospital, Thoracic Surgery Clinic, Turkey
    • ,
  • Murat Ugurlucan

      Affiliations

    • Istanbul University Istanbul Medical Faculty, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Turkey
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Bergstrasse 7a, No. 105, 18057 Rostock, Germany. Tel.: +49 174 380 54 52; fax: +49 381 494 62 14.
    • ,
  • Sener Yediyildiz

      Affiliations

    • Bezm-i Alem Vakif Gureba Training and Research Hospital, Thoracic Surgery Clinic, Turkey

Received 8 November 2007 ,Revised 16 March 2008 ,Accepted 1 April 2008.

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PII: S1443-9506(08)00128-5

doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2008.04.002

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