The role of surgical management in recurrent thymic tumors

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 247-254

  Hamaji, Masatsugu ^a   Allen, Mark S ^a   Cassivi, Stephen D ^a   Nichols III, Francis C ^a   Wigle, Dennis A ^a   Deschamps, Claude ^a   Shen, K Robert ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIPOMA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; THORACOTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84862906979     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.02.092     Document Type: Article

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