Thymoma: Current diagnosis and treatment

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2186-2191

  Detterbeck, Frank C ^a   Zeeshan, Ahmad ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Masaoka Koga classification; Mediastinum; Myasthenia gravis; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PATHOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; STERNOTOMY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMOMA; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84878675874     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.20130177     Document Type: Review

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