Pancoast Tumor (cont.)
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Shabir Bhimji, MD
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Sarah K May, MD
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Winston W Tan, MD
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In 1932, Pancoast defined a superior pulmonary sulcus tumor as a mass growing at the thoracic inlet that produces a constant and characteristic clinical presentation of pain in an eighth cervical or first and second thoracic trunk distribution.
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