%0 Journal Article %T Multimodality treatment of stage II thymic tumours %A Anna Maria Ciccone %A Camilla Poggi %A Carolina Carillo %A Daniele Diso %A Erino Angelo Rendina %A Federico Venuta %A Flavia Longo %A Marco Anile %A Raffaele Cassese %A Sara Mantovani %A Tiziano De Giacomo %A Vincenzo Tombolini %A Ylenia Pecoraro %J SCIE-indexed Journal %D 2017 %R 10.21037/jtd.2017.06.116 %X Thymic tumors are relatively rare neoplasms arising from the epithelial thymic cells. They show a significant histological heterogeneity and clinical behavior ranging from an indolent non-invasive attitude to a highly infiltrative and metastasizing one. Prognosis is affected by the Masaoka-Koga staging, the World Health Organization (WHO) histological classification, completeness of resection, the diameter of the lesion and the presence of vascular invasion (1-8) %U http://jtd.amegroups.com/article/view/15023/html