World Health Organization classification of thymomas provides significant prognostic information for selected stage III patients: Evidence from an international thymoma study group

Human Pathology

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1413-1421

  Marchevsky, Alberto M ^a,g   Gupta, Ruta ^a   Casadio, Caterina ^b   Hiroshima, Kenzo ^c   Jambhekar, Nirmala A ^d   Kim, Dae Joon ^e   Nakatani, Yukio ^c   Okumura, Meinoshin ^f   Rena, Ottavio ^b   Yoshida, Shigetoshi ^c  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^e Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^f OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evidence; Stage; Thymoma; WHO classification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROGNOSIS; THYMOMA; CLASSIFICATION; META ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77957163790     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2010.02.012     Document Type: Article

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