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Tumours of the thymus: a cohort study of prognostic factors from the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons database

Monday, August 18, 2014

Submitted by

Joel Dunning

Source

Source Name: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://ejcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/46/3/361.abstract

Author(s)

Enrico Ruffini, Frank Detterbeck, Dirk Van Raemdonck, Gaetano Rocco, Pascal Thomas, Walter Weder, Alessandro Brunelli, Andrea Evangelista and Federico Venuta on behalf of the European Association of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) Thymic Working Group

2151 cases of surgery for thymomas were analyzed based on a retrospective EACTS database. Recurrence rate and survival were negatively associated with Masaoka stages III–IV, incomplete resection and non-thymoma histology, whereas adjuvant therapy after complete resection correlated to improved survival.