Masaoka Stage and Histologic Grade Predict Prognosis in Patients With Thymic Carcinoma

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 912-917

  Hosaka, Yasuko ^a   Tsuchida, Masanori ^a   Toyabe, Shin ichi ^b   Umezu, Hajime ^b   Eimoto, Tadaaki ^c   Hayashi, Jun ichi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL AND DENTAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOID; CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MASAOKA STAGE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS CANCER; THYMUS CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 76749131113     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.11.057     Document Type: Article

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