Management of pleural recurrence after curative resection of thymoma

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1185-1189

  Lucchi, Marco ^a   Davini, Federico ^a   Ricciardi, Roberta ^a   Duranti, Leonardo ^a   Boldrini, Laura ^a   Palmiero, Gerardo ^b   Basolo, Fulvio ^a   Mussi, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Weaning and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Unit   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PLEURA TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORACOTOMY; THORAX SURGERY; THYMOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM SEEDING; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64849097568     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.09.033     Document Type: Article

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