Radiation therapy in the management of thymic tumors

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 32-40

  Eng, Tony Y ^a   Thomas Jr , Charles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Radiation therapy; Thymic carcinoid; Thymic carcinoma; Thymic tumors; Thymofibrolipoma; Thymoliposarcoma; Thymoma; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN;

BONE METASTASIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOID; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; HEALTH STATUS; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MYELITIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; RELAPSE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN METASTASIS; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; THORAX SURGERY; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASE;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 17144397553     PISSN: 10430679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2004.12.005     Document Type: Review

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