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Table 2 Survey of 50 patients containing their different treatment modalities according to Masaoka stage

From: Stage-based treatment for thymoma in due consideration of thymectomy: a single-center experience and comparison with the literature

Masaoka

Total number

Biopsy

Neoadjuvant treatment

Sternotomy

VATS

Thoracotomy

Adjuvant radiation

Recurrence

Death

I

20

13

 

11

7

4

2

  

IIA

15

9

 

10

6

1

14

3

2

IIB

3

1

 

2

2

1

3

  

III

6

6

1

5

  

1

2

1

IVA

1

1

2

1

  

5

  

IVB

5

5

    

1

 

2

  1. VATS video-assisted thoracic surgery
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World Journal of Surgical Oncology

ISSN: 1477-7819

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