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Epithelial Thymic Neoplasms

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The thymic epithelial tumors represent a heterogeneous group of thoracic cancers that originate in the thymus and are in the anterior mediastinum (de Jong WK, Blaauwgeers JL, Schaapveld M et al. Eur J Cancer 44:123–130, 2008). They are classified according to the World Health Organization (WHO) in Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma (Marx A, Chan JK, Coindre JM et al. J Thorac Oncol 10:1383–1395, 2015). Thymomas may spread locally, but thymic carcinomas are much more aggressive (Proceedings of the First International Conference on Thymic Malignancies. August 20–21, 2009. Bethesda, Maryland, USA. J Thorac Oncol 2010;5:S259–S370, 2009).

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Landgraf, M.M., Guimarães, D.P., Tadokoro, H., De Mello, R.A. (2019). Epithelial Thymic Neoplasms. In: De Mello, R., Mountzios, G., Tavares, Á. (eds) International Manual of Oncology Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16245-0_12

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