Thymomas and thymic carcinomas: Prognostic factors and multimodal management

Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 153-160

  Moser, Bernhard ^a   Scharitzer, Margit ^a   Hacker, Stefan ^a   Ankersmit, Jan ^a   Matilla, Jose Ramon ^a   Lang, Georg ^a   Aigner, Clemens ^a   Taghavi, Shahrokh ^a   Klepetko, Walter ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

chemotherapy; mediastinal tumor; mediastinum; radiation therapy; surgery incisions; thymus

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASAOKA KOGA STAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX SURGERY; THYMOMA; THYMUS CANCER; TUMOR BIOPSY; VERY ELDERLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT; AUSTRIA; BIOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; BIOPSY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896492751     PISSN: 01716425     EISSN: 14391902     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1322611     Document Type: Article

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