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Ann Thorac Surg 2005;80:2000-2001
© 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Original article: General thoracic

Invited commentary

Kazuya Kondo, MD, PhD

Department of Oncological and Regenerative Surgery, University of Tokushima Graduate School, Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima, 770-8503 Japan

(Email: kondo@clin.med.tokushima-u.ac.jp).

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The idea of clinical staging of thymoma was introduced by Bergh and colleagues [1], which was later modified by Wilkins and Castleman [2], and was advanced by Masaoka and associates [3] in 1981. Masaoka's system has been widely adopted and is an excellent system for predicting prognosis for thymomas. Several articles including the article by Bedini and associates [4] have pointed out problems and have suggested that an update of the system is desirable.

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