Surgical Management of Stage III Thymic Tumors

Thoracic Surgery Clinics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-91

  Venuta, Federico ^a   Rendina, Erino A ^b   Klepetko, Walter ^c   Rocco, Gaetano ^d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Stage III; Surgical management; Thymic tumors

Indexed keywords

CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LOBECTOMY; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STERNOTOMY; THYMOMA;

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEINS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PERICARDIUM; PHRENIC NERVE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; STERNOTOMY; THORACOTOMY; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78149460163     PISSN: 15474127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thorsurg.2010.08.006     Document Type: Review

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