Preoperative CT Findings of Thymoma are Correlated with Postoperative Masaoka Clinical Stage

Academic Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 66-72

  Qu, Yan juan ^a   Liu, Guo bing ^a   Shi, He shui ^b   Liao, Mei yan ^a   Yang, Gui fang ^a   Tian, Zhi xiong ^a  

^a ZHONGNAN HOSPITAL OF WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNION HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Clinical stage; Computed tomography; Masaoka staging system; Thymic epithelial tumors; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASAOKA CLINICAL STAGING; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THYMOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 84870863498     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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