MTE 23.01 Thymic Neoplasms
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Well-Differentiated Thymic Epithelial Neoplasms (Thymoma)
(atypical thymoma); and those showing total loss of the organotypical features of the thymus and displaying overt cytologic evidence of malignancy correspond to high-grade or poorly differentiated thymic epithelial neoplasms (also designated, by convention, thymic carcinoma) (2,4). The grading is based on a combination of architectural and cytological parameters as observed on routine microscop...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Thoracic Oncology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1556-0864
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2017.09.174