Problem areas and inconsistencies in the WHO classification of thymoma

Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 188-197

  Suster, Saul ^a   Moran, Cesar A ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical thymoma; Thymic carcinoma; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL TYPE; EPITHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOMA; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HUMANS; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33646103897     PISSN: 07402570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semdp.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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