Number of recurrent lesions is a prognostic factor in recurrent thymoma

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-24

  Yano, Motoki ^a   Sasaki, Hidefumi ^a   Moriyama, Satoru ^a   Hikosaka, Yu ^a   Yokota, Keisuke ^a   Masaoka, Akira ^a   Fujii, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Recurrence; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; RECURRENT CANCER; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMOMA; THYMUS SURGERY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79959636178     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2010.264036     Document Type: Article

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