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Imaging Procedures for Visualization of the Thymus

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The Thymus

Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Diagn Imaging))

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Chest radiography in the sagittal and lateral planes remains the essential diagnostic method in respect of the thymus despite all the modern imaging methods now available.

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  1. Abteilung Röntgendiagnostik, Radiologische Klinik der Universität Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Straße 3, W-7400, Tübingen, Germany

    Eberhard Walter

  2. Abteilung für Pädiatrische Radiologie, Klinikum der Universität Heidelberg —Kinderklinik—, Im Neuenheimer Feld 153, W-6900, Heidelberg, Germany

    Eberhard Willich

  3. Department of Radiology, University of California, Medical Center, 505 Parnassus Ave., San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA

    W. Richard Webb M.D.

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Walter, E., Willich, E., Webb, W.R., de Geer, G. (1992). Imaging Procedures for Visualization of the Thymus. In: Walter, E., Willich, E., Webb, W.R. (eds) The Thymus. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84192-7_4

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