%0 Journal Article
%T Quimioterapia neoadyuvante en un timoma invasor: Cirug¨ªa curativa con neumonectom¨ªa izquierda en bloque
%A Honguero Mart¨ªnez
%A A. F.
%A Arnau Obrer
%A A.
%A Estors Guerrero
%A M.
%A Ju¨¢rez Marroqu¨ª
%A A.
%A Garde Noguera
%A J.
%A Ros Lucas
%A J. A.
%A P¨¦rez Alonso
%A D.
%A Cant¨® Armengod
%A A.
%J Oncolog¨ªa (Barcelona)
%D 2006
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.4321/S0378-48352006000100006
%X we present a patient suffering from an invasive thymoma discovered in a chest roentgenogram because of progressive dyspnea. neoadjuvant chemotherapy was used after histological diagnosis, observing a tumor volume decrease of 25 %. the surgical treatment consisted of the thymoma en bloc resection, and a left side pneumonectomy due to affected pulmonary vessels. the combination of neoadjuvant chemotherapy and surgery is applied as a curative intention therapy.
%K thymoma
%K pneumonectomy
%K neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
%U http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0378-48352006000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en