Prognosis of thymic epithelial tumors according to the new World Health Organization histologic classification

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 992-997

  Suk Park, Moo ^a   Young Chung, Kyung ^a,b   Dong Kim, Kil ^a,b   Ick Yang, Woo ^a   Ho Chung, Jae ^a   Sam Kim, Young ^a,b   Chang, Joon ^a,b   Hang Kim, Joo ^a,b   Kyu Kim, Sung ^a,b   Kyu Kim, Se ^a,b  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYMOMA; THYMUS CANCER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 4444379032     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.03.097     Document Type: Article

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