Evidence-based pathology and the pathologic evaluation of thymomas: The world health organization classification can be simplified into only 3 categories other than thymic carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2780-2788

  Marchevsky, Alberto M ^a   Gupta, Ruta ^a   McKenna, Robert J ^a   Wick, Mark ^b   Moran, Cesar ^c   Zakowski, Maureen F ^d   Suster, Saul ^e  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Pathology; Prognostic value; Randomized clinical trials; Thymoma; World Health Organization classification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THYMOMA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; META ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

CLASSIFICATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 44249123159     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23492     Document Type: Article

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