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ReviewJournal of thoracic disease2016

The enlightenments from ITMIG Consensus on WHO histological classification of thymoma and thymic carcinoma: refined definitions, histological criteria, and reporting.

Jie Wu, Wentao Fang, Gang Chen

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Review in Journal of thoracic disease, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Extended resections of large thymomas: importance ofJournal of thoracic disease · 2018
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  11. Paraneoplastic Syndromes and Thymic Malignancies: An Examination of the International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group Retrospective Database.Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jie Wu1 Department of Pathology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China ; 2 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China.
Wentao Fang1 Department of Pathology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China ; 2 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China.
Gang Chen1 Department of Pathology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China ; 2 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University · CNSun Yat-sen University · CNZhongshan Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) histological classification of the thymoma and thymic carcinoma (TC) has been criticized for poor interobserver reproducibility or inconsistencies in the routine pathological diagnosis. The International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group (ITMIG) panel achieved an agreement to maintain the widely accepted WHO framework but to refine historic definitions and histological criteria, and further introduce some new terms with the aim to improve interobserver reproducibility. This review addresses the enlightenments we can get from the ITMIG consensus on the WHO histological classification of the thymoma and TC, which may be helpful for most pathologists.

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PMCPMC4824730
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