The role of histology in predicting recurrence of type A thymomas: A clinicopathologic correlation of 23 cases

Modern Pathology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1059-1064

  Vladislav, I Tudor ^a   Gökmen Polar, Yesim ^a   Kesler, Kenneth A ^a   Loehrer Sr , Patrick J ^a,b   Badve, Sunil ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypia; Behavior; Histology; Metastasis; Spindle cell thymoma; Thymoma; Type A

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CELL DEATH; CHROMATIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MITOSIS RATE; NECK METASTASIS; NUCLEAR SHAPE; NUCLEOLUS; PLEURA METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SPINDLE CELL; THYMOMA; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84881316778     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2013.49     Document Type: Article

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