A clinicopathologic study of 12 neuroendocrine tumors arising in the thymus

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Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 141-146

  Tiffet, Olivier ^a   Nicholson, Andrew G ^a   Ladas, Georges ^a   Sheppard, Mary N ^a   Goldstraw, Peter ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mediastinum; Neuroendocrine carcinoma; Thymic carcinoid tumor

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CD56 ANTIGEN; CHROMOGRANIN A; SOMATOSTATIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOID; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METASTASIS; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYMOMA; THYMUS; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 0038498500     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.124.1.141     Document Type: Article

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