Airway cancers have been increasing in recent years. Tracheal resection is commonly
performed during surgery and is burdened from post-operative complications severely …

Paraneoplastic antibody syndromes result from the anti-tumor antibody response against
normal antigens ectopically expressed by tumor cells. Although this antibody response plays …

Purpose The immune checkpoint ligand programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 (PD-L1) is
expressed in various tumors and is associated with the response to anti programmed cell …

We present 1470 surgical resections for thymoma identified in the pathology files of 14
institutions from 11 countries with the purpose of determining and correlating a simplified …

Introduction The prognostic value of histopathologic classifications of thymoma is debated.
Problematic reproducibility might cause this controversy. We studied the prognostic …

Thymic imaging is challenging because the imaging appearance of a variety of benign and
malignant thymic conditions are similar. CT is the most commonly used modality for …

Background Programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) has been reported to be expressed in
various malignancies and is considered to be a prognostic factor and an immunotherapeutic …

Abstract Background/Purpose This multi-institutional study was aimed to analyze prognostic
factors of completely resected early stage thymoma. Methods Patients with surgically treated …

Opinion statement The thymus is a key organ involved in establishing central immune
tolerance. Thymic epithelial tumors (TETs) include thymomas and thymic carcinomas …

Thymoma is a disease with malignant potential, which has a recurrence rate after complete
resection ranging from 5 to 50%. Multiple studies on the risk factors, treatment or prognosis …