Thymic neoplasms

Current Opinion in Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 156-160

  Komaki, Ritsuko ^a   Putnam Jr , Joe B ^a   Shin, Dong Moon ^a   Cox, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; PREDNISONE;

CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; STERNOTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS SURGERY;

EID: 0031008742     PISSN: 10408746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001622-199703000-00009     Document Type: Review

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