Prognostic relevance of masaoka and Muller-Hermelink classification in patients with thymic tumors

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1550-1555

  Lardinois, Didier ^a   Rechsteiner, Renate ^a   Läng, R Hubert ^a   Gugger, Matthias ^a   Betticher, Daniel ^a   Von Briel, Christian ^a   Krueger, Thorsten ^a   Ris, Hans Beat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; THYMOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033919523     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(00)01140-1     Document Type: Article

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