Thymoma with dissemination: Efficacy of macroscopic total resection of disseminated nodules

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1425-1431

  Yano, Motoki ^a   Sasaki, Hidefumi ^a   Yukiue, Haruhiro ^a   Kawano, Osamu ^a   Okuda, Katsuhiro ^a   Hikosaka, Yu ^a   Fujii, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; ESOPHAGITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; IRRADIATION; LEUKOPENIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; RADIATION SICKNESS; THYMOMA;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67349251933     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-009-0069-4     Document Type: Article

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