Ann Thorac Surg 2004;78:997-998
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Invited commentary
Juan Rosai, MD
Department of Pathology, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Via Venezian, 1, Milan 20133, Italy
juan.rosai@istitutotumori.mi.it
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The current WHO classification of thymic epithelial tumors has incorporated the most salient elements of the two main preexisting classifications (colloquially known as the American and German, respectively) and has arranged the various tumor types into categories identified by a combined alphabetical and numerical code (A, AB, B1, B2, B3, C). Several articles that have appeared following this publication, including the one by Park and associates in this issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, have reported that the scheme is easy to follow and that it correlates closely with tumor . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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