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Chest

Known as: thoracics, thoracic region, area thoracic 
The anterior side of the thorax from the neck to the abdomen. The shape of the chest is often regarded as potential insight into a disease process… 
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Acute Rheumatic PericarditisAcute rheumatic heart diseaseAorticopulmonary Septal DefectBronchogenic Carcinoma

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Anterior thoracic region

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Skeletal system

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Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Rates and risk factors for prolonged opioid use after major surgery: population based cohort study
Objective To describe rates and risk factors for prolonged postoperative use of opioids in patients who had not previously used… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy: experience with 1,100 cases.
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Evidence for circulating bone marrow-derived endothelial cells.
It has been proposed that hematopoietic and endothelial cells are derived from a common cell, the hemangioblast. In this study… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
The Association of Radiographically Detected Vertebral Fractures with Back Pain and Function: A Prospective Study
Radiographically detected vertebral fractures (hereafter referred to as vertebral fractures) are a hallmark of postmenopausal… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Radical Lymph Node Dissection for Cancer of the Thoracic Esophagus
ObjectiveThe authors documented the localization and frequency of lymphatic spread in squamous cell carcinoma of the thoracic… 
Review
1993
Review
1993
Cell migration and chimerism after whole‐organ transplantation: The basis of graft acceptance
Improvements in the prevention or control of rejection of the kidney and liver have been largely interchangeable (1, 2) and then… 
Review
1988
Review
1988
Transesophageal echocardiography: technique, anatomic correlations, implementation, and clinical applications.
Review
1978
Review
1978
Epidural spinal cord compression from metastatic tumor: Diagnosis and treatment
The clinical findings in 130 consecutive cases of spinal cord compression by metastatic extradural tumors were analyzed. These… 
Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
A POPULATION OF LYMPHOCYTES BEARING A MEMBRANE RECEPTOR FOR ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY-COMPLEMENT COMPLEXES
A population of lymphoid cells from several animal species, including man, was identified through a membrane receptor which binds… 
Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
The route of re-circulation of lymphocytes in the rat
The experiments presented in this paper support the idea that the output of small lymphocytes from the thoracic duct of the rat… 
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