Clinical study on thymoma: Assessment of prognostic factors

Anticancer Research

Volumn 16, Issue 6 B, 1996, Pages 3895-3900

  Sassa, Kazuhiko ^a   Mizushima, Yutaka ^a   Kusajima, Yoshinori ^b   Sugiyama, Shigeki ^a   Noto, Hirofumi ^c   Kobayashi, Masashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b Department of Thoracic Surgery   (Japan)

^c TOYAMA PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mediastinal tumor; Prognostic factors; Thyoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEURINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMOMA;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030485498     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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