Long-term results of surgical treatment for invasive thymoma

Anticancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2 B, 1999, Pages 1433-1437

  Sugiura, Hiroshi ^a   Morikawa, Toshiaki ^a   Ito, Kiyotaka ^a   Ono, Koichi ^a   Okushiba, Shunichi ^a   Satoshi, Kondo ^a   Katoh, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Invasive thymoma; Prognostic factors; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; THYMOMA; TUMOR BIOPSY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PERICARDIUM; PLEURA; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033034001     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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