Thymic carcinoma: Outcomes after surgical resection

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1668-1673

  Okereke, Ikenna C ^a,b,c   Kesler, Kenneth A ^a,b,c   Freeman, Richard K ^a,b,c   Rieger, Karen M ^a,b,c   Birdas, Thomas J ^a,b,c   Ascioti, Anthony J ^a,b,c   Badve, Sunil ^a,b,c   Nelson, Robert P ^a,b,c   Loehrer, Patrick J ^a,b,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY HEALTH   (United States)

^b St Vincent Health and Hospital System   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMUS CANCER; THYMUS SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RARE DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860250113     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.01.014     Document Type: Article

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