Clinical and pathologic predictors of survival in patients with thymoma.

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Published in Ann Surg on October 01, 1999

Authors

K B Wilkins1, E Sheikh, R Green, M Patel, S George, M Takano, M Diener-West, J Welsh, S Howard, F Askin, G B Bulkley

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

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