Tumor-node metastasis staging system for thymic epithelial tumors

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 10 SUPPL. 4, 2010, Pages

  Kondo, Kazuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Staging classification; Thymic carcinoid; Thymic carcinoma; Thymoma; TNM staging system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOID; CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMOMA;

HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; PROGNOSIS; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77957560975     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e3181f20f3b     Document Type: Article

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