The role of a pseudocapsula in thymic epithelial tumors: Outcome and correlation with established prognostic parameters. Results of a 20-year single centre retrospective analysis

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Dango, Sebastian ^a   Passlick, Bernward ^a   Thiemann, Ulf ^a   Kayser, Gian ^a   Stremmel, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; THORAX SURGERY; THYMOMA; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68349131394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-4-33     Document Type: Article

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