The clinicopathological significance of thymic epithelial markers expression in thymoma and thymic carcinoma

Abstract Background The classification of thymomas is based on the morphology of epithelial tumor cells and the proportion of lymphocytes. Type A thymomas are composed of the spindle or oval tumor epithelial cells. Tumor cells of B thymomas are epithelioid-shaped with increasing atypia. Type AB thym...

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Main Authors: Huiyang Li, Bo Ren, Shili Yu, Hongwen Gao, Ping-Li Sun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-02-01
Series:BMC Cancer
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-023-10619-6