Limited thymectomy for stage I or II thymomas

Abstract Background Once an anterior mediastinal tumor has been diagnosed as a thymoma, complete excision including the thymic gland and perithymic fat is currently the procedure of choice. However, little is known about the clinical outcome of grossly encapsulated thymomas excised only with the sur...

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Published in:	Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Vol. 68; no. 3; pp. 460 - 465
Main Authors:	Onuki, Takuya, Ishikawa, Shigemi, Iguchi, Kesato, Goto, Yukinobu, Sakai, Mitsuaki, Inagaki, Masaharu, Yamamoto, Tatsuo, Onizuka, Masataka, Sato, Yukio, Ohara, Kiyoshi, Sakakibara, Yuzuru
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford Elsevier Ireland Ltd 01-06-2010 Elsevier
Subjects:	Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Biological and medical sciences Disease Progression Diseases of striated muscles. Neuromuscular diseases Female Follow-Up Studies Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Medicine Humans Limited surgery Male Masaoka staging Medical sciences Middle Aged Multiple thymoma Myasthenia gravis Myasthenia Gravis - etiology Neoplasm Staging Neurology Pneumology Postoperative Postoperative Complications Pulmonary/Respiratory Retrospective Studies Survival Analysis Thymectomy Thymoma Thymoma - diagnosis Thymoma - mortality Thymoma - pathology Thymoma - surgery Thymus Neoplasms - diagnosis Thymus Neoplasms - mortality Thymus Neoplasms - pathology Thymus Neoplasms - surgery Tumors Tumors of the respiratory system and mediastinum WHO histologic classification Postoperative Multiple thymoma Thymectomy Myasthenia gravis Thymoma Masaoka staging Limited surgery WHO histologic classification Mediastinum disease Thymus pathology Cancerology Surgery Classification Benign neoplasm WHO Pneumology Nervous system diseases Neuromuscular diseases Multiple Respiratory disease Histology Malignant tumor Treatment Thymic epithelial tumor Limit Cancer
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