Thymomas I: A clinicopathologic correlation of 250 cases with emphasis on the World Health Organization schema

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 444-450

  Moran, Cesar A ^a   Weissferdt, Annikka ^a   Kalhor, Neda ^a   Solis, Luisa M ^a   Behrens, Carmen ^a   Wistuba, Ivan I ^a   Suster, Saul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Mediastinum; Thymoma; Thymus; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOMA; TUMOR VOLUME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CLASSIFICATION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMECTOMY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; SURVIVAL RATE; TEXAS; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859247108     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: 19437722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/AJCP76KEGWQKWOKA     Document Type: Article

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