Adjuvant Radiotherapy for Thymic Epithelial Tumors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1641-1647

  Korst, Robert J ^a,b   Kansler, Amanda L ^a   Christos, Paul J ^c   Mandal, Sanjay ^a  

^a Daniel and Gloria Blumenthal Cancer Center   (United States)

^b VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAPHRAGM; HUMAN; LUNG; META ANALYSIS; PLEURA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THYMOMA; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

CARCINOMA; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECURRENCE; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 64649092784     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.11.022     Document Type: Review

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