Thirty-Five-Year Follow-Up Analysis of Clinical and Pathologic Outcomes of Thymoma Surgery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 245-252

  Margaritora, Stefano ^a   Cesario, Alfredo ^a,c   Cusumano, Giacomo ^a   Meacci, Elisa ^a   D'Angelillo, Rolando ^d   Bonassi, Stefano ^e   Carnassale, Giulia ^a   Porziella, Venanzio ^a   Tessitore, Adele ^a   Vita, Maria Letizia ^a   Lauriola, Libero ^b   Evoli, Amelia ^b   Granone, Pierluigi ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c CDC   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^e IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THYMOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

AGED; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 76449105294     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.08.074     Document Type: Article

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