Surgery for invasive primary mediastinal tumors

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 234-239

  Bacha, Emile A ^a   Chapelier, Alain R ^a   Macchiarini, Paolo ^a   Fadel, Elie ^a   Dartevelle, Philippe G ^a  

^a CENTRE CHIRURGICAL MARIE LANNELONGUE   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; NEUROGENIC TUMOR; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; THYMOMA; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEINS; CARCINOMA; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PHRENIC NERVE; PNEUMONECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; STERNUM; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 0032125733     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)00350-6     Document Type: Article

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