Historical perspectives: The evolution of the thymic epithelial tumors staging system

Lung Cancer

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 126-132

  Filosso, Pier Luigi ^a   Ruffini, Enrico ^a   Lausi, Paolo Olivo ^a   Lucchi, Marco ^b   Oliaro, Alberto ^a   Detterbeck, Frank ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

History; Masaoka staging system; Staging system; Thymic carcinoma; Thymoma; Thymus; TNM classification

Indexed keywords

BERGH STAGING SYSTEM; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; GROUPE D ETUDE DES TUMEURS THYMIQUES STAGING SYSTEM; HUMAN; KOGA STAGING SYSTEM; MASAOKA KOGA STAGING SYSTEM; MASAOKA STAGING SYSTEM; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; THYMIC EPITHELIAL TUMOR; THYMOMA; THYMUS CANCER; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; VERLEY HOLLMANN STAGING SYSTEM; WILKINS CASTLEMAN STAGING SYSTEM;

HISTORY; MASAOKA STAGING SYSTEM; STAGING SYSTEM; THYMIC CARCINOMA; THYMOMA; THYMUS; TNM CLASSIFICATION;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84892867908     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: 18728332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2013.09.013     Document Type: Review

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