Treatment of Advanced Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma
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Thymoma and thymic carcinoma.
Thymic tumors comprise a heterogeneous group of neoplasms with a wide spectrum of clinical presentations. The evolution of the disease is often unpredictable, ranging from an indolent attitude to the possibility of intra- and extrathoracic spread. From the histological point of view, thymoma and thymic carcinoma are the most frequent subtypes and arise only from thymic epithelial cells. Other h...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Treatment Options in Oncology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1527-2729,1534-6277
DOI: 10.1007/s11864-009-0083-7