Clinical characteristics, prognostic factors, and long-term outcomes associated with epithelial malignancies of the thymus: A 20-year single-institution experience.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Thymic epithelial tumors are rare and include thymomas and thymic carcinomas. There is scarce literature characterizing prognostic factors and long-term outcomes in these tumors.

Aims

This review aims to describe disease features of thymomas and thymic carcinomas and to report clinical differences among thymoma histological subtypes.

Methods and results

A retrospective chart review was performed at the University of Florida Shands Hospital, a tertiary care academic medical center in Gainesville, Florida, USA. The review included clinical data of adults with thymic epithelial tumors diagnosed between 2001 and 2021. Significant associations among demographics, histology, stage, and outcomes were investigated. Thymoma subgroup analysis was performed using hist

SUBMITTER: Altshuler E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10026295 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature