TY - JOUR AU - Novellis, Pierluigi AU - Veronesi, Giulia AU - Raffeeq, Zaheer AU - Alloisio, Marco PY - 2019 TI - Thymoma surgery: extreme surgical indications JF - Journal of Thoracic Disease; Vol 11, No 7 (July 31, 2019): Journal of Thoracic Disease Y2 - 2019 KW - N2 - Complete resection for thymoma is the most remarkable prognostic factors in thymic tumours (1,2). At initial stages, a complete and radical resection could easily be achieved with an excellent prognosis. Tumours invading lungs, great vessels or pericardium have a higher rate of R1 to R2 resection and higher risk of recurrence, and therefore, a worse prognosis can be observed (3). In locally advanced thymus tumors some factors must be kept in close observation including: local extension to large mediastinal vessels; innominate vein, superior vena cava (SVC) and pulmonary vessels, infiltration of the pericardium and distant metastases to the pleura and organ within it with or without pleural diffusion. UR - https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/30071