Factors Predicting recurrence and postrecurrence survival in completely resected thymic carcinoma

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1169-1175

  Yen, Yi Ting ^a   Lai, Wu Wei ^a   Chang, Kai Wei ^a   Chang, Kung Chao ^a   Lee, Shang Chi ^b   Lin, Sheng Hsiang ^a   Wu, Ming Ho ^c   Tseng, Yau Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c TAINAN MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS CANCER; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84898596353     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.12.024     Document Type: Article

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