En bloc Extended Total Thymectomy and Extrapleural Pneumonectomy in Masaoka stage IVA Thymomas

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Yang, Hee C ^a,b   Yoon, Yoo S ^a   Kim, Hong K ^a   Choi, Yong S ^a   Kim, Kwhanmien ^a   Shim, Young M ^a   Han, Jungho ^a   Kim, Jhingook ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952464492     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-6-28     Document Type: Article

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