[Surgical therapy with adjuvant radiotherapy of thymoma: results of 104 cases].
One hundred and four cases of thymomas were treated between 1967 and 1991 at the Chest Disease Institute, Kyoto University. Forty-two cases were clinical stage I, 12 cases were stage II, 42 cases were stage III and 8 cases were stage IV. Nineteen patients had MG, 17 patients had SVC syndrome. Ninety-six cases were surgically resected combined with radiation therapy. Overall survival was 77.9% at 5 years and 62.5% at 10 years. The survival of 62 cases of invasive thymoma was 77.5% at 5 years and 54.8% at 10 years. We've got better prognosis when total or subtotal resection of invasive thymoma could be accomplished, i.e. 88.8% at 5 years and 72.6% at 10 years.
Ariyasu
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Department of Surgery, Kyoto University, Japan.
Yagi
K
K
Wada
H
H
Kobayashi
J
J
Yokomise
H
H
Mizuno
H
H
Inui
K
K
Aoki
M
M
Hitomi
S
S
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D015996:Survival Rate; D013945:Thymoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*