Surgical treatment of pleural recurrence from thymoma

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 707-711

  Lucchi, Marco ^a   Basolo, Fulvio ^a   Mussi, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Multimodality treatments; Pleural relapse; Surgery; Survival; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; OCTREOTIDE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PATIENT SELECTION; PLEURA CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT CANCER; REVIEW; THYMOMA;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 40649100950     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2008.01.015     Document Type: Review

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