Therapy for thymic epithelial tumors: A clinical study of 1,320 patients from Japan

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 878-884

  Kondo, Kazuya ^a   Monden, Yasumasa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; THORAX SURGERY; THYMOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0041329952     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00555-1     Document Type: Article

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