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Is Thymectomy Necessary in Nonmyasthenic Patients with Early Thymoma?

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1 Is Thymectomy Necessary in Nonmyasthenic Patients with Early Thymoma?
Yen-Chiang Tseng, MD, Chih-Cheng Hsieh, MD, Hsin-Yi Huang, MS, Chien-Sheng Huang, MD, Wen-Hu Hsu, MD, Biing-Shiun Huang, MD, PhD, Min-Hsiung Huang, MD, Han-Shui Hsu, MD, PhD  Journal of Thoracic Oncology  Volume 8, Issue 7, Pages (July 2013) DOI: /JTO.0b013e31828cb3c2 Copyright © 2013 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions

2 FIGURE 1 Patient selection.
Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2013 8, DOI: ( /JTO.0b013e31828cb3c2) Copyright © 2013 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions

3 FIGURE 2 The case number of patients undergoing removal of thymoma with and without thymectomy before and after 2007. Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2013 8, DOI: ( /JTO.0b013e31828cb3c2) Copyright © 2013 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions

4 FIGURE 3 The freedom-from-recurrence curve with error bars for the 5-year timepoint for 95 patients undergoing removal of thymoma with thymectomy and without thymectomy. Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2013 8, DOI: ( /JTO.0b013e31828cb3c2) Copyright © 2013 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions

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