Advanced stage thymomas and thymic carcinomas: Results of multimodality treatments

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1840-1844

  Lucchi, Marco ^a   Ambrogi, Marcello Carlo ^a   Duranti, Leonardo ^a   Basolo, Fulvio ^a   Fontanini, Gabriella ^a   Angeletti, Carlo Alberto ^a   Mussi, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; EPIRUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ALOPECIA; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOTOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EXPERIENCE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NAUSEA; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PLEURA METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; REOPERATION; REVIEW; STOMATITIS; SURVIVAL TIME; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX SURGERY; THYMUS CANCER; TREATMENT FAILURE; VOMITING;

EID: 20444395101     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.12.047     Document Type: Article

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