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Pathology of the Pleura and Mediastinum

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  • Kim, D. J. (2005). Prognostic and clinical relevance of the World Health Organization Schema for the classification of thymic epithelial tumors: A clinicopathologic study of 108 patients and literature review. Chest, 127(3), 755–761. Print.

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  • Moran, C. A., Weissferdt, A., Kalhor, N., Solis, L. M., Behrens, C., Wistuba, I. I., & Suster, S. (2012). Thymomas I: A clinicopathologic correlation of 250 cases with emphasis on the World Health Organization Schema. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 137(3), 444–450.

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  • Suster, S., & Moran, C. A. (2008). Histologic classification of thymoma: The world health organization and beyond. Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America: 22(3):381–392.

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  • Travis, W. D., Brambilla, E., Burke A. P., Marx A., & Nicholson A.G. (Eds.). (2015). WHO classification of tumours of the lung, pleura, thymus and heart. Lyon: IARC Press. 4th ed.

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  • Weidner, N., Cote, R., Suster, S., & Weiss, L. (Eds.). (2009). Modern surgical pathology (second ed., Vol. 1, pp. 454–516). Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier.

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  1. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    David Suster & Paul VanderLaan

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  1. Department of Pathology, The University of Mississippi Medical School, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA

    Timothy Craig Allen

  2. Department of Pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Saul Suster

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Suster, D., VanderLaan, P. (2018). Thymoma. In: Allen, T.C., Suster, S. (eds) Pathology of the Pleura and Mediastinum. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66796-6_59

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