@article{JTD6962,
author = {Zhitao Gu and Jianhua Fu and Yi Shen and Yucheng Wei and Lijie Tan and Peng Zhang and Yongtao Han and Chun Chen and Renquan Zhang and Yin Li and Keneng Chen and Hezhong Chen and Yongyu Liu and Youbing Cui and Yun Wang and Liewen Pang and Zhentao Yu and Xinming Zhou and Yangchun Liu and Yuan Liu and Wentao Fang and Members of the Chinese Alliance for Research in Thymomas},
title = {Thymectomy versus tumor resection for early-stage thymic malignancies: a Chinese Alliance for Research in Thymomas (ChART) retrospective database analysis},
journal = {Journal of Thoracic Disease},
volume = {8},
number = {4},
year = {2016},
keywords = {},
abstract = {Background: To evaluate the surgical outcomes of tumor resection with or without total thymectomy for thymic epithelial tumors (TETs) using the Chinese Alliance for Research in Thymomas (ChART) retrospective database.
Methods: Patients without preoperative therapy, who underwent surgery for early-stage (Masaoka-Koga stage I and II) tumors, were enrolled for the study. They were divided into thymectomy and thymomectomy groups according to the resection extent of the thymus. Demographic and surgical outcomes were compared between the two patients groups.
Results: A total of 1,047 patients were enrolled, with 796 cases in the thymectomy group and 251 cases in the thymomectomy group. Improvement rate of myasthenia gravis (MG) was higher after thymectomy than after thymomectomy (91.6% vs. 50.0%, P},
issn = {2077-6624}, url = {https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/6962}
}