Pulmonary metastasis 12 years after resection of thymoma with microscopic capsule invasion

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 630-633

  Nomori, Hiroaki ^a   Watanabe, Kenichi ^a   Ohtsuka, Takashi ^a   Naruke, Tsuguo ^a   Suemasu, Keiichi ^a   Orikasa, Hideki ^a   Yamazaki, Kazuto ^a  

^a SAISEIKAI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Post thymectomy myasthenia gravis; Prognosis; Pulmonary metastasis; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

PYRIDOSTIGMINE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIPLOPIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM MASS; MULTIPLE CANCER; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PTOSIS; STERNOTOMY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW;

CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PYRIDOSTIGMINE BROMIDE; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 16644369111     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyh105     Document Type: Article

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