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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2024

The Molecular Landscape of Thymic Epithelial Tumors: A Comprehensive Review.

Lisa Elm, Georgia Levidou

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Thymic epithelial tumors: what's next?Cancer metastasis reviews · 2026
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  11. Preoperative Biopsy Is Not Associated With Overall Survival in Patients With Surgically Resected Localized Thymoma.European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Lisa ElmDepartment of Pathology, Nuremberg Clinic, Paracelsus Medical University, 90419 Nuremberg, Germany.ORCID 0009-0001-6732-198X
Georgia LevidouDepartment of Pathology, Nuremberg Clinic, Paracelsus Medical University, 90419 Nuremberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1398-178X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thymic epithelial tumors (TETs) are characterized by their extreme rarity and variable clinical presentation, with the inadequacy of the use of histological classification alone to distinguish biologically indolent from aggressive cases. The utilization of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) to unravel the intricate genetic landscape of TETs could offer us a comprehensive understanding that is crucial for precise diagnoses, prognoses, and potential therapeutic strategies. Despite the low tumor mutational burden of TETS, NGS allows for exploration of specific genetic signatures contributing to TET onset and progression. Thymomas exhibit a limited mutational load, with prevalent

Indexed as

Neoplasms, Glandular and EpithelialThymomaThymus NeoplasmsEpigenesis, GeneticHumansgenetic alterationsmolecular diagnosticNGSsignaling pathwayTETsthymic epithelial tumorsthymoma

Identifiers

PMID38338833
PMCPMC10855681

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