[pubmed] Oncological resection, myasthenia gravis and staging as prognostic factors in thymic tumours: a Chilean case se

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Ecancermedicalscience. 2021 Mar 9;15:1201. doi: 10.3332/ecancer.2021.1201. eCollection 2021.

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Thymic epithelial tumours 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 tumours in Latin America is largely unknown and reports are scarce, somewhat limited to case reports.

METHODS: Herein, we report a series of 38 thymic tumours 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 (

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