Outcome of surgical treatment for recurrent thymic epithelial tumors with reference to World Health Organization histologic classification system

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-44

  Okumura, Meinoshin ^a   Shiono, Hiroyuki ^a   Inoue, Masayoshi ^a   Tanaka, Hisaichi ^b   Yoon, Hyun Eng ^c   Nakagawa, Katsuhiro ^d   Matsumura, Akihide ^b   Ohta, Mitsunori ^a   Iuchi, Keiji ^b   Matsuda, Hikaru ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KINKI CHUO CHEST MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c Rinku General Medical Center   (Japan)

^d OSAKA PREFECTURAL MEDICAL CENTER FOR RESPIRATORY AND ALLERGIC DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Re resection; Thymic carcinoma; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMOMA; THYMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33846267291     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.20671     Document Type: Article

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