Surgical treatment of recurrent thymomas

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

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

  Lucchi, Marco ^a   Mussi, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Metastasis; Multimodality treatments; Pleural relapse; Surgery; Survival; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; PLEURECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOMA;

EID: 77957584428     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e3181f20f27     Document Type: Article

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