Successful treatment of malignant thymoma with sacrum metastases
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Natural history and treatment of malignant thymoma.
Thymomas are rare, slow-growing neoplasms that are considered to be malignant because of their potential invasiveness. The most widely used staging system is that of Masaoka and colleagues, which takes into account the extent of clinical and histopathologically determined disease involvement. However, recent data suggest that the staging system of the French Study Group on Thymic Tumors (GETT s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medicine
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0025-7974,1536-5964
DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000013796