Proposal of a novel system for the staging of thymic epithelial tumors

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1994-2000

  Bedini, Amedeo Vittorio ^a   Andreani, Stefano Michele ^b   Tavecchio, Luca ^b   Fabbri, Alessandra ^b   Giardini, Roberto ^b   Camerini, Tiziana ^b   Bufalino, Rosaria ^b   Morabito, Alberto ^b   Rosai, Juan ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSTITUTO NAZIONALE TUMORIL SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASAOKA SYSTEM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERICARDIUM; PLEURA METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMOMA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CARCINOMA; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 28344454172     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.07.019     Document Type: Article

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