Preservation of Phrenic Nerve Involved by Stage III Thymoma

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1612-1619

  Yano, Motoki ^a   Sasaki, Hidefumi ^a   Moriyama, Satoru ^a   Kawano, Osamu ^a   Hikosaka, Yu ^a   Masaoka, Akira ^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; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY FAILURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; EXPIRATION DATE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NERVE PARALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHRENIC NERVE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE RED CELL ANEMIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENESCENCE; STERNOTOMY; THORACOTOMY; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; VITAL CAPACITY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAPHRAGM PARALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHRENIC NERVE; PROBABILITY; RESPIRATORY PARALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953059109     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.01.057     Document Type: Article

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