The World Health Organization histologic classification system reflects the oncologic behavior of thymoma: A clinical study of 273 patients

Cancer

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 624-632

  Okumura, Meinoshin ^a,b   Ohta, Mitsunori ^a,b   Tateyama, Hisashi ^c   Nakagawa, Katsuhiro ^b   Matsumura, Akihide ^b   Maeda, Hajime ^b   Tada, Hiroto ^b   Eimoto, Tadaaki ^c   Matsuda, Hikaru ^a,b   Masaoka, Akira ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Masaoka staging system; Thymic carcinoma; Thymic epithelial tumor; Thymoma; World Health Organization histologic classification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THYMOMA; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0036469081     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10226     Document Type: Article

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