Clinical experience of thymoma
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Thymoma: first large Indian experience.
BACKGROUND Thymoma is the most common tumor of the anterior mediastinum. Surgery is mainstay of treatment, with adjuvant radiation recommended for invasive thymoma. Because of rarity, prospective randomized trials may not be feasible even in multicentric settings hence the best possible evidence can be large series. Till date Thymoma has not been studied in Indian settings. MATERIALS AND METH...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the Japanese Associtation for Chest Surgery
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0919-0945,1881-4158
DOI: 10.2995/jacsurg.21.538