The correlation of the World Health Organization histologic classification of thymic epithelial tumors and its prognosis: A clinicopathologic study of 108 patients from China

International Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 255-261

  Yin, Honglin ^a,b   Du, Jun ^a   Lu, Zhenfeng ^a   Jiao, Xia ^a   Wang, Jiandong ^a   Zhou, Xiaojun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JINLING HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Masaoka clinical stage; Pathology surgery; Thymoma prognosis; WHO histologic subtype

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHINA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMOMA; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; PROGNOSIS; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 65849406073     PISSN: 10668969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1066896909334126     Document Type: Article

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