Offner F, Vallaeys J, Roels H, Van der Straeten M
Dept of Respiratory diseases, University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
Eur Respir J. 1991 Oct;4(9):1060-5.
We reviewed 25 patients with thymoma for clinical symptoms at presentation, X-ray findings and outcome. The tumours of all patients were classified using 3 different pathologic classification systems and each system was evaluated for its predictive power with respect to survival. The recent classification system by Müller-Hermelink allowed to distinguish thymomas with associated systemic syndromes from those without. However, no good prediction with respect to outcome could be made by any of the 3 systems.
我们回顾性分析了25例胸腺瘤患者的临床表现、X线检查结果及预后情况。所有患者的肿瘤均采用3种不同的病理分类系统进行分类，并评估每种系统对生存的预测能力。Müller-Hermelink最近提出的分类系统能够区分伴有全身综合征的胸腺瘤和不伴有全身综合征的胸腺瘤。然而，这3种系统均无法对预后做出良好的预测。
