Oncological resection, myasthenia gravis and staging as prognostic factors in thymic tumours: a Chilean case series
| Autor: | César Sánchez, Erica Koch, Marcelo Garrido, Jorge Madrid, Patricio Salas, José Peña, Matías Muñoz-Medel, Jose R. Valbuena, felipe bannura, Carolina Ibañez, Francisco Acevedo, Miguel Cordova-Delgado, Bruno Nervi, Mauricio P. Pinto, Héctor Galindo, Sebastian Mondaca, maria eliana solovera |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Oncology
myasthenia gravis Cancer Research medicine.medical_specialty Series (stratigraphy) Thymoma business.industry Short Communication Medical record Incidence (epidemiology) staging thymoma medicine.disease Myasthenia gravis Resection Young age Internal medicine medicine Stage (cooking) thymic tumour business |
| Zdroj: | ecancermedicalscience |
| ISSN: | 1754-6605 |
| DOI: | 10.3332/ecancer.2021.1201 |
| Popis: | Background: Thymic epithelial tumors are rare and highly heterogeneous. Reports from the United States suggest an overall incidence of 0.15 per 100,000/year. In contrast, the incidence of these tumors in Latin America is largely unknown and reports are scarce, somewhat limited to case reports.Methods: Herein, we report a series of 38 thymic tumors from a single institution, retrospectively incorporated into this study. Patient characteristics and outcomes including age, sex, stage, paraneoplastic syndromes, treatment regimens and the date of decease were obtained from medical records.Results: Most cases in our series were females and young age ( |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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