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Images in Thorax
Primary Ewing's sarcoma presenting as a Pancoast tumour
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  1. Lowie Vanfleteren1,
  2. Rogier van Stiphout2,
  3. Robert G Riedl3,
  4. Rob Jansen4,
  5. Dirk De Ruysscher5,6,
  6. Anne-Marie C Dingemans1,6
  1. 1Department of Respiratory Medicine,Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  2. 2Department of Radiology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  3. 3Department of Pathology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  4. 4Department of Internal Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  5. 5Department of Radiotherapy, MAASTRO Clinic, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  6. 6GROW – School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  1. Correspondence to Lowie Vanfleteren, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Postbus 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands; lowievanfleteren{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.2010.140004

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